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R rtweet search_30day message: Exceeded rate limit

I want to search for any instance of several different hashtag uses from two weeks ago. I went with search_30day() to do so. I expect there to be around 100,000(ish) tweets that I then want to do sentiment analysis later. However, I run the following, and after it hit's 2%, it says that 2%list(message="Exceeded rate limit"...). Is there a way to pick up where I left on on the search once Twitter's 15-min window resets?

myTweets <- search_30day("#generalconference OR #conference", n=100000, fromDate="2019-10-04, toDate="2019-10-07",env_name="ConfData", parse=TRUE)
Solution

  • UPDATE: the best solution I came up with is to create a loop where after 3000 tweets have been pulled, I put the system to sleep for 15 min until the 15 min window clears and I keep going.