How can I use the Twitter Search API to return all tweets that match my search query, posted only within the last five seconds?

Question

I would like to use the API to return all tweets that match my search query, but only tweets posted within the last five seconds.

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Answer 1

Twitter API results are sorted by recent by default. Please see the following quote from twitter wiki :

Parameter to Twitter search API :

result_type: Optional. Specifies what type of search results you would prefer to receive.

* Valid values include:


      o mixed: In a future release this will become the default value. Include both popular and real time results in the response.
      o recent: The current default value. Return only the most recent results in the response.
      o popular: Return only the most popular results in the response.
* Example: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=Twitter&result_type=mixed
* Example: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=twitterapi&result_type=popular
* Example: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=justin+bieber&result_type=recent

Please correct me if I am wrong anywhere.

Thanks and Regards,
Abhay Dandekar