We make no formal guarantee, but it's extremely unusual for us to be inserting updates in timelines older than an hour.
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Jonathan Eunice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fine. I will rescan. > > Can you estimate for me the maximum latency of message arrival? I.e, > how far > back do I need to rescan in order to get a high confidence that I have > "gotten > everything" in the friends_timeline? 10 minutes? An hour? Several > hours? > > > On Oct 3, 7:37 pm, "Alex Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes, you simply need to rescan the friends_timeline. We can't >> currently guarantee the ordering of responses from that method, and we >> don't currently have a mechanism to "fill in the gaps". We do intend >> to improve the failure case in the future, though. > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
