Can't search tweets from a handle! Can anyone help me?

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I can't use search API to get any tweet from a particular handler @calcrutchlow, but I do find he was posting several tweets recently. Can anyone help me to find the problem. http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=&include_entities=1&from=calcrutchlow&page=1&rpp=100

27 weeks 4 days ago

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episod
@episod Taylor Singletary

The Search service does not index all tweets. To get tweets authored by a specific user, you should use their user timeline instead.

Why are the Tweets I'm looking for not in Twitter Search, the Search API, or Search widgets?

Twitter's search is optimized to serve relevant tweets to end-users in response to direct, non-recurring queries such as #hashtags, URLs, domains, and keywords. The Search API (which also powers Twitter's search widget) is an interface to this search engine. Our search service is not meant to be an exhaustive archive of public tweets and not all tweets are indexed or returned. Some results are refined to better combat spam and increase relevance. Due to capacity constraints, the index currently only covers about a week's worth of tweets.

The user timeline API is the definitive source of tweets by a specific author. For a collection of recent Tweets by more than one user, consider creating a Twitter List and leveraging the list timeline. The Streaming API is often the best-fit choice when seeking completeness.

If the tweets you're looking for aren't available in search and you think they should be, consult this support topic for further instructions to contact @Support.

27 weeks 3 days ago