One of the unfortunate side effects of the FriendFeed acquisition is the very real possibility that the company will eventually shut down its servers. Unless Twitter corrects this issue on its own, we have to find another solution for archiving tweets ourselves. That’s bad for users and it’s definitely bad for data-mining. What that means is something tweeted prior to a week and a half ago can never be retrieved via. According to Twitter’s search documentation, the current date limit on the search index is “around 1.5 weeks but is dynamic and subject to shrink as the number of tweets per day continues to grow.” At first, Twitter held onto your tweets for around a month, but as the service grew more popular, this “date limit” has dramatically shortened. Did you know that your tweets have an expiration date on them? While they never really disappear from your own Twitter stream, they become unsearchable in only a matter of days.
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