[twitter-dev] Re: How to get the number of pages in user's timeline

2011-04-19 Thread Tim Meadowcroft
I'm pretty sure all tweet IDs are in a single global ordering, so 1 week ago is the same numerical ID (for the since_id) param for every user account. So you could post a single tweet (or similar) every day and use this to build a date to ID mapping over time... then you'll know an ID to use

[twitter-dev] Re: How to get the number of pages in user's timeline

2011-04-18 Thread ToddySM
I think I spoke to soon. The statuses_count won't work in the case when I use the since_status parameter of the timeline because I may not wont to retrieve the whole timeline for the user but only the statuses for the last week. In this case I don't know how many pages are in the timeline. Any

[twitter-dev] Re: How to get the number of pages in user's timeline

2011-04-16 Thread Tim Meadowcroft
The users/show API includes a statuses_count field which tells you how many tweets the user has posted http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/show -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi

[twitter-dev] Re: How to get the number of pages in user's timeline

2011-04-16 Thread ToddySM
Thanks Tim! I think that will work. On Apr 16, 2:11 am, Tim Meadowcroft meer...@gmail.com wrote: The users/show API includes a statuses_count field which tells you how many tweets the user has posted  http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/show -- Twitter developer documentation and