The Twitter API doesn't provide data that far back. There are services that have archived the data and charge a fee depending upon your needs. You can search for Twitter archives to find a vendor.
This page may help you with getting started using the Twitter API and the services available. https://dev.twitter.com/docs/platform-objects/tweets HTH, Tim On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Abhishek Dutta <abhishek....@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 > > > > > -- > Abhishek Dutta > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- ============================================ Timothy Cook LinkedIn Profile:http://www.linkedin.com/in/timothywaynecook MLHIM http://www.mlhim.org [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
