[twitter-dev] Re: Historical user information

2010-03-16 Thread MaDeuce
Twitter newb question: Mark, I want to be clear that I'm not questioning the accuracy of your answer at all; I'm sure you're correct. However, I can't fathom why there would be this much redundancy in the data returned by the Twitter API. If I understand correctly, if I get the 20 most recent st

[twitter-dev] Re: Historical user information

2010-03-17 Thread MaDeuce
Mark, thanks for the reply. I understand it from the aspect of convenience, however, I still don't understand it in terms of actual behavior. I performed an experiment with with a fairly active timeline. I grabbed 20 recent (less than one week old) status entries and 20 older (about 11 months ol