Question

I have a jQuery plugin on a site I maintain. It fetches json results from the twitter api. However, since yesterday there are no results coming from the server anymore. Also, on twitter itself I’m not getting the expected results ether. Why does http://twitter.com/#!/search/from%3Ajasperkennis return results, while http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/from%3Ansma_ doesn’t?

Answer 1

Twitter is a large website with billions of tweets each week. There’s absolutely no way to make a billion tweets searchable, so Twitter only picks a certain group of tweets (the interesting and non-spammy ones) and lets those turn up in the search indexes only.

If you want all tweets from a certain user, use the statuses/user_timeline API method, not the search API.

http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=nsma_