Kyle, Can you give an example of the calls you are using to get user tweets? It sounds like you need to page through the statuses/user_timeline method [1]. Where are you having problems?
[1] - http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation#usertimeline Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Kyle Tolle <kyle.to...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've had trouble getting all the tweets for users while using an app > to pull down what should be the entire list of tweets for that user. > Is this the sort of restriction you mention? > I'm not even really sure how to go about seeing which ones are missing > to see if there is a pattern. > I'd really like to make an archive/statistical utility, but it will > not do well at either if it can't get all the tweets! > > I see these sorts of threads have been around for years... just > wondering how much progress has been made on it. > > On Mar 9, 6:07 pm, Alex Payne <a...@twitter.com> wrote: >> We retain any and all tweets that aren't deleted by users. We have all >> the tweets ever :) >> >> We have some artificial limits in place restricting how far back in >> time/pages you retrieve tweets. As our data stores increase in >> reliability for large working sets, we'll be able to lift these >> restrictions and provide a reasonable quality of service to API >> clients. >> >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 13:07, shapper <mdmo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> >> > When are tweets archived? >> > It depends of how long they were created or twitter keeps always N >> > tweets visible? >> >> > Can I access older tweets? And can followers access my older tweets? >> >> > Thanks, >> > Miguel >> >> -- >> Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x >
