New Post: import mechanism of twiiter

Hello, Clemens:

You read the exact opposite of what I wrote: The Search API is NOT a complete index of all recent public tweets. I'll quote Twitter again:

"Please note that Twitter's search service and, by extension, the Search API is not meant to be an exhaustive source of Tweets. Not all Tweets will be indexed or made available via the search interface."

That means that NodeXL may be unable to get all the tweets that mentioned your search term, no matter how often you ask it to. With a popular topic, Twitter might give NodeXL only 100 of the 100,000 tweets that mentioned the search term in the last hour, and so that's all NodeXL can give to you. With less popular topics, you might actually get all the recent tweets, but there is no way to know how many you might be missing.

The bottom line: You have to think of NodeXL as providing a selection of recent tweets, the selection being determined by Twitter. If you need all such tweets, you have to go to other companies that contract with Twitter to resell tweet data.

-- Tony