Only the 3200 most recent ones, unless you know the IDs of the tweets. Tom
On 9/30/10 5:09 PM, linuslive wrote: > Good morning all! > > Before the OAuth change, I wrote a twitter archiver that would grab my > tweets and dump them into a database. Back then I only had about 1K > tweets so I was able to grab all my tweets without hitting the limit. > And of course since then, I don't post more than 20 tweets a day. > > But today, I was curious to see if I could use the new OAuth to > retrieve my timeline, starting from my first tweet. I can't seem to > get it. > > Here are my parameters: > http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=linuslive&since_id=1&trim_user=1&count=200 > > When I do this, it only gives me the top 200 tweets. It doesn't start > from the beginning and give me my 200 oldest tweets, as I would > expect. > > I've tried various since_id's, even retrieving my first tweet: > http://twitter.com/linuslive/statuses/872090728 > > Which equals > http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=linuslive&since_id=872090728&trim_user=1&count=200 > > And I get the same response. > > According to twitter, I have 3682 tweets, just over the 3200 limit > according to http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/user_timeline. > The confusing thing is that the documentation does not make it clear > that it's 3200 of the most recent tweets, or just 3200 per session. > > Could I get a clarification on this? > > Thanks! > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
