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I am using the recent search end point in python (“/2/tweets/search/recent”) with the following query params:

query_params = {'query': '-happy lang:en -is:retweet',
                'tweet.fields': 'text,created_at',
                'start_time': '2021-11-27T00:00:00Z'
                }

But the result returns created_at as the current timestamp as opposed to when the tweet was created/start_time. What am I missing?

Result example below:

{
    "data": [
        {
            "created_at": "2021-12-03T20:00:20.000Z",
            "text": "<some tweet text>"
        }
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the default end_time is from “30 seconds ago from now” and tweets are delivered in reverse chronological order.

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Thank you @IgorBrigadir
I searched for sorting the result by created_at for this endpoint, no luck. I am now using end_time instead of start_time to filter for date in query params.

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You can’t specify sorting order in the API unfortunately, it’s always reverse-chronological, and it’s best to specify both start_time and end_time explicitly - but if unspecified, start_time is “7 days ago” GET /2/tweets/search/recent | Docs | Twitter Developer Platform

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that actually doesn’t answer the question. If I understood well, and I bet I did since I have the same problem: why does the response in the field “created_at” doesn’t return the created_at date of the tweet but instead, returns the created_at of the query. The documentation specify that the tweet.fields created_at is supposed to return the date/time of the tweet.

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Interesting! The created at date should be the tweet created at date, in UTC. Do you have an example of where the created at date is wrong?