Twitter API 1.1 and Twitter Search Have Different Results
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Last thing I figured out was that the API 1.1 search has "since" and "until" keywords in the url but they are mostly useless because Twitter Search API looks only for the recent tweets, mostly a couple weeks. After that you can't find your tweet through the API as I experienced in the last 2 months with several testing