I have been trying to figure this out but this is a really frustrating. I\'m trying to get tweets with a certain hashtag (a great amount of tweets) using Tweepy. But this do
2018 update: Twitter has Premium search APIs that can return results from the beginning of time (2006):
https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/search/overview/premium#ProductPackages
Search Tweets: 30-day endpoint → provides Tweets from the previous 30 days.
Search Tweets: Full-archive endpoint → provides complete and instant access to Tweets dating all the way back to the first Tweet in March 2006.
With an example Python client: https://github.com/twitterdev/search-tweets-python