diff --git a/CHANGELOG.markdown b/CHANGELOG.markdown
index d646009..29bf338 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.markdown
+++ b/CHANGELOG.markdown
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+## next
+
+* fix: newer twitter accounts not fetching new posts past the initial historical fetch
+
 ## v1.6.1
 
 Released 2019-07-23
diff --git a/tasks.py b/tasks.py
index 03bd57b..703ba73 100644
--- a/tasks.py
+++ b/tasks.py
@@ -157,7 +157,11 @@ def fetch_acc(id_):
             # ???
             raise TemporaryError("Fetching posts went horribly wrong")
 
-        if len(posts) == 0:
+        if (
+            len([post for post in posts if post.remote_id not in (max_id, since_id)])
+            == 0
+        ):
+            # if there are no posts other than the edges
             # we either finished the historic fetch
             # or we finished the current batch
             account.fetch_history_complete = True