I am using this URL http://search.twitter.com/search.json to grab tweets with the hash tag #SameHashTag. The feed only returns items within the past week. Twitter explains why here:
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/faq#8650
I really need to get the last 10 tweets, regardless of when they were created. What is the alternative?
Note I read about user_timeline, but that seems to be based on user instead of hashtag. I read about list_timeline, but that seems to pull tweets from a defined list of users instead of hashtag.
You can’t get old tweets from Search API. If your hashtag doesn’t change you could search it and save results every day and build your own history.