Get tweets from twitter using twitter4j

Question

I am developing an application to guess tornado locations by analyzing twitter data. To do this, I would first need to train the neural network in some annotated tweets. I’ve been trying to get tweets from last year that have the word “tornado” in it. This is my code below: -

Query query = new Query("tornado"); query.setRpp(100); query.setSince("2010-11-01"); query.setUntil("2011-01-13"); QueryResult queryResult = instance.search(query); tweetList = queryResult.getTweets(); 

I can get tweets from periods closer to the present, for example, last week, etc., but I can not get any results for periods like the ones listed above. Any hints, suggestions are help. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I just figured out the reason using another means, thought that I would share the answer in case there are other people with the same problem.

It turned out that the twit-search api does not return tweets older than about a week, and also, depending on the load on the server, from time to time it can be only 24 hours! Therefore, any third-party libraries (such as twitter4j) that have a wrapper for the twitter search api will behave in a similar way.

The best way to do this is to use third-party search and indexing sites like snapbird, topsy, etc.