[R] ATTN: Urgent Guidance Needed on scraping tweets for last 10 years using TwitteR / search twitter function.

Hadley Wickham h.wickham at gmail.com
Wed Jul 30 19:54:27 CEST 2014


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Hadley

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 3:58 AM, Abhishek Dutta <abhishek.dta at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> This is Abhishek and I am trying to look for tweets on 'Election' from
> 2000 to YTD. I have registered on twitter and performed a handshake
> between the systems as well. Next I am trying to fetching tweets
> chronologically using the below code:-
>
>
> tweets1.list = searchTwitter('Election',lang="en",since='2000-07-01',
> until='2014-07-30', cainfo="cacert.pem")
>
>
> All I get in return is 26 line items between 27th - 28th of July only.
>
>
> Can you please help me understand why it gives me so less number of
> tweets, backdated by two days only & also if there is a an alternative
> method of fetching tweets over the last ten years, at the minimum,
> categorized by date ?
>
>
> Many thanks in advance for your guidance. This is an urgent request
> and hence requesting your immediate assistance.
>
>
> Best
>
> Abhishek
>
>
>
>
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> Abhishek Dutta
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