I'm not sure how long ago this problem began, but I have begun getting blank results for some queries made using the Twitter search api. Search results for some users come through as expected:
http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from:ladygaga
http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from:YouTubeDev
But when I search for my own tweets, as well as some of the other users I follow, the results are blank:
http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from:orkodev
Anyone have some insight here? This has been working consistently for months...
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Did you recently protect your account: https://twitter.com/#!/orkodev ?
As for search results, the site isn't returning anything either - are you sure there are public tweets to find? https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/orkodev
If you have more examples (from other folks you follow) they would be helpful.
Thanks @kurrik, I think this is at the heart of the issue. I tested with a non-protected account and recent tweets appeared as expected.
Is there an 'authenticated version' of the search api that would return protected tweets if the auth'd user had access?
Unfortunately not, from https://dev.twitter.com/docs/using-search : "Search does not support authentication meaning all queries are made anonymously.". If you're just trying to get the timelines of specific users, consider the user_timeline API method: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/statuses/user_timeline
Another way to get a feed of protected tweets would be to parse the user stream for your account:
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-api/user-streams which would return streaming data for all accounts you follow.
Naturally the protected accounts would have to be the auth'd user, or have accepted a follow request from the auth'd user.
Thanks for your help here @kurrik. Looks like something custom will be required.