Difference between Twitter operators
dancsuu07
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Hello!
My question is about the Search Twitter and the Get Twitter User Statuses operators. Recently I faced the fact that I cannot retrive tweets from years ago because the Standard Search API supports 7 days of historical tweets with the search twitter operator. However, when I use Get Twitter User Statuses, I can retrive tweets even from 2016. What is the reason behind it? Does this operator uses a different API?
Thank you for the help!
My question is about the Search Twitter and the Get Twitter User Statuses operators. Recently I faced the fact that I cannot retrive tweets from years ago because the Standard Search API supports 7 days of historical tweets with the search twitter operator. However, when I use Get Twitter User Statuses, I can retrive tweets even from 2016. What is the reason behind it? Does this operator uses a different API?
Thank you for the help!
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hi @dancsuu07 yes it has to do with the limitations of the free version of the Twitter API. User statuses do not seem to be limited in the same way. Twitter keeps changing their API rules...I would recommend you just do a Google search for "Twitter API free quota" and you'll find plenty of info. The RapidMiner operator is just a wrapper for querying the API.Scott5
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hi @dancsuu07 yes it has to do with the limitations of the free version of the Twitter API. User statuses do not seem to be limited in the same way. Twitter keeps changing their API rules...I would recommend you just do a Google search for "Twitter API free quota" and you'll find plenty of info. The RapidMiner operator is just a wrapper for querying the API.Scott5