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Chedy2149
Chedy2149

Reputation: 3051

What technical knowledge do Grip Inc and DataSift possess that allows them to search in old tweets?

Using the Twitter Search API 1.1 it is only possible to search tweets as far as 9 days in time.

Companies such as Grip Inc and DataSift provides the ability to search beyond this time limitation.

I wanted to know how do they overcome this limitation?

Do they have priviliged access granted by the Twitter company itself?
Or Are they just dumping tweets since forever and storing them aside?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 52

Answers (2)

Jason
Jason

Reputation: 450

DataSift and Gnip are Twitter Firehose partners; they both receive the full feed of public Tweets and retweets from Twitter. https://business.twitter.com/partners/list/certified-products

Upvotes: 1

Has QUIT--Anony-Mousse
Has QUIT--Anony-Mousse

Reputation: 77454

Most likely, they bought a license for the data from Twitter?

Either way, we do not know.

You are asking about company internals - along the lines of "how does Ford build its motors", actually - but this site is for actual programming questions, not for speculation on companys.

Upvotes: 0

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