Re: [twitter-dev] since_id only returns ~20 results?
On 6/2/10, Ellsass cpa...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't see this mentioned explicitly in the documentation, but it seems that calling statuses/home_timeline?since_id=XYZ only returns ~20 statuses. I'm developing an app that is intended to be able to list all tweets (respecting the limit of 200 statuses, of course). As far as I can tell, the correct solution seems to be to find the oldest ID returned in that set of 20, then make another call using max_id, and keep repeating until status XYZ is returned in the set? It seems like it would be a lot more efficient if since_id would simply return up to 200 statuses the first time since the call clearly indicates I'm looking for all tweets since that ID, but I suppose we can't all have everything we want in life ;) -- Sent from my mobile device
[twitter-dev] since_id only returns ~20 results?
I didn't see this mentioned explicitly in the documentation, but it seems that calling statuses/home_timeline?since_id=XYZ only returns ~20 statuses. I'm developing an app that is intended to be able to list all tweets (respecting the limit of 200 statuses, of course). As far as I can tell, the correct solution seems to be to find the oldest ID returned in that set of 20, then make another call using max_id, and keep repeating until status XYZ is returned in the set? It seems like it would be a lot more efficient if since_id would simply return up to 200 statuses the first time since the call clearly indicates I'm looking for all tweets since that ID, but I suppose we can't all have everything we want in life ;)
