Twitter api search geocode makes issues

Question

For me

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?geocode=9.98%2C76.28%2C5km

returns tweets

but for

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?geocode=9.98%2C76.28%2C15km

returns none

For the second the radius is increased to 15km

Why it is not working? I tried it on https://dev.twitter.com/rest/tools/console

Answer 1

Some people (including myself) have started experiencing issues with existing geo-related searches from approximately 2014-11-20 23:00 UTC. Perhaps it relates to your problem.

Looks like Twitter developers have been aware of this issue for at least last four days and are working on it. There is no ETA though, last response from Twitter published 12 hours ago says:

...we are aware of the issue and working to resolve it, but it may be a few days. We apologise for the disruption to your applications, and appreciate your patience. We're hopeful that we can get a fix deployed soon, but some things take time

Please see these discussions for more details:

• [1] Search API returning (very) sparse geocode results: https://twittercommunity.com/t/search-api-returning-very-sparse-geocode-results/27998
• [2] Twitter Advanced Search Not Working: https://twittercommunity.com/t/twitter-advanced-search-not-working/28114