I would like to know what using since_id in Twitter API Search would return? I have been repeatedly trying to get json data over our slow internet and testing different forms of the query. I was using the search api and tried assigning
since_id = ""
but then, after repeated trials most of the time i get response:0 but there are time response is 200 (which is successful). Sometimes i repeatedly run it just to make sure and found out the same codes sometimes return 0 or 200. So i guess it is just the internet connection.
In my results, the tweets that were returned were only those posted at the current date. I am not sure, i would like to confirm it else are there ways to get all the dates from latest to oldest? because i am trying to get the count of all tweets which mentions the word "dragon" from current date to the last month. I have tries querying first date all result using "until" last month to get the latest id till that time. then another query for "since_id" to current for the count. But due to some connection problem i am not able to tell if it works just fine .
Any thoughts please? Thanks
The since_id parameter is used for navigating through a user's timeline. If you submit a query with the since_id equal to some status id, your results will only contain tweets with a status_id greater than the one you specified. Since you are using the Search API, I would suggest instead using the search operators offered by the search feature itself. For example, the query "superhero since:2011-05-09" will return results containing "superhero" and sent since date "2011-05-09" (year-month-day).
Hope this helps.