Twitter introduces premium full-archive Search endpoint

Close on the heels of its premium Search Tweets API announcement, Twitter is further extending historical access to tweets with a new, premium full-archive Search endpoint. 

The ability to access tweets from as early as 2006 significantly increases the types of answers and insights at the users’ disposal. Valuable insights include:

• What has the world been saying about my brand over the last decade?
• How has the conversation during major award shows shifted over the years?
• How do people respond to major technology product launches year over year?

Starting February 2, 2018, the full-archive Search endpoint is available in beta. This new endpoint on the premium Search Tweets API provides access to every public tweet currently on Twitter, all the way back to @jack’s first Tweet in 2006. This marks the first time that this data is available outside of the annual contracts and pricing commitments of Twitter enterprise APIs. 

Like the premium 30-day Search endpoint, Twitter will give users greater access to Twitter history, making it easy to innovate and to grow brand solutions. Beyond the increased time frame, the new full-archive endpoint behaves exactly like the premium 30-day endpoint and includes functionality beyond what’s available in Twitter’s standard search/Tweets endpoint, including:

• More Tweets per request
• Higher rate limits
• A counts endpoint that returns time-series counts of Tweets
• More complex queries
• Meta data enrichments, such as expanded URLs and improved profile geo information

In addition to this historical access, users will also get access to Twitter’s premium developer account dashboard, where they can monitor their usage, manage their billing, and invite teammates to collaborate.