Twitter api 1.1, get ALL tweets by hashtag search /search/tweets.json limits

Question

I know how to get tweets from a hashtag (Twitter request to get the latest tweets for a hashtag using Twitter API V1.1 using OAuth settings)

But it appears that some tweets associated with a hashtag aren't retrieved, even with the parameter "recent". And if I tweet on #somethingforexample, there isn't a tweet with the api for that same hashtag.

On https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/search/tweets : "Please note that Twitter's search service and, by extension, the Search API is not meant to be an exhaustive source of Tweets. Not all Tweets will be indexed or made available via the search interface."

Is there a way to do that ?

Thanks !

Answer 1

You'd have to get the twitter firehose. Right now you get a subset of the tweets that twitter makes available.

If you have an exhaustive list of your sources (twitter ID or screen_name) you may poll their tweets directly following the rate limit guidelines.