[R] Question about searchTwitter{twitteR}

[Cory N]

You are only able to search twitter history for a short period of time. 
gnip.com and similar companies offer historical tweets for sale.

cn


On Sunday, September 7, 2014 9:21:34 AM UTC-5, Axel Urbiz wrote:
>
> Hello, 
>
> The function searchTwitter() with the arguments supplied as below would 
> give me a different number of results on different days I run this code. 
> Maybe it is my lack of understanding about what the date arguments are 
> supposed to do in this function, but I would think I should be getting the 
> same tweets? 
>
>
> tweets <- searchTwitter('my text search', 
>                                     n = 1000, 
>                                     since = '2013-09-01', 
>                                     until = '2014-08-31') 
>
>
> Thanks, 
> Axel. 
>
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