def _parse_search_results(json_result):
    """Search results are divided into 'statuses' and 'search_metadata'. The former
    contains the tweets themselves, and the latter contains the max_id to use to retrieve
    the next batch of tweets"""
    statuses = json_result.get('statuses')
    metadata = json_result.get('search_metadata')
    next_results = metadata.get('next_results')
    return statuses, next_results