retrieving tweets from specific user older than 7

Question

i am trying to Get the tweets from any user ... but it returns only last 7 day's tweets... I want to retrieve tweets older than that... how to Do it.. .

Right now i am fetching tweets by

http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from%3Amihirpmehta

this URL

but it only gives me tweets that are tweeted in last 7 days.

Answer 1

If you need collect Tweets older than 7 days you can't do it with Twitter's API, but I think you can do it using web-scraping (the tweets can easily be scraped with the Python module BeautifulSoup ; but please if any one know the disadvantage of this method tell us!

Answer 2

I have found one... by using MGTwitter i am able to retrieve it... Thanks

Answer 3

I don't think the twitter search API allows you to go back any further. If you add the until parameter you can see that if you go back more than a week it returns a 404.