Searchcount under-reporting

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
Searchcount is not reporting all hashtag mentions:
http://otter.topsy.com/searchcount.json?q=%23LewisAustralia&type=tweet

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The results should be at least 600 when the api is only returning 297.

I suspect this may have something to do with Topsy displaying 'Mentions That 
Matter'. Is it possible to retrieve ALL results?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by NativeP...@gmail.com on 6 Jul 2012 at 10:39

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This seems to also affect search's total field and searchhistogram, too.

For example, plotting 
http://otter.topsy.com/searchhistogram.txt?q=@<USER>&count_method=citation&perio
d=30&type=tweet does *not* yield the same result as the web interface Dashboard 
over the same 30-day period. (However, the two are correlated--the same general 
trends can be found in both datasets, just not with consistent numbers.)

Original comment by bbklop...@gmail.com on 14 May 2013 at 12:14