It's a bug that you can't get all of your own tweets, regardless of how far back. You're right that the archive via the Search API is a moving target, but it's our intention to provide user timelines to their owners going as far back as necessary.
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:00 AM, TCI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alex, > How about the question for retrieving older tweets? Summize does have > some more history than Archive, but I guess we cannot count on these > retention times as you are growing quickly! > Rafa > > On Oct 20, 11:50 am, "Alex Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Looks like we've got some bugs here, as neither of these >> behaviors/limitations are intentional. Please file issues >> athttp://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entryand we'll get them >> taken care of. >> >> >> >> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Phil Gyford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> >> > I'm trying to archive all my twitters to a local database. I'm using >> > user_timeline but have hit a couple of problems. >> >> > First, if I set the 'count' parameter to the maximum of 200 and ask >> > for 'page' 2, then it doesn't fetch back tweets 201-400, but instead >> > fetches tweets 21-220. So 'count' does not affect the number of tweets >> > on a 'page'. So if you set the count to 200 and request several >> > incrementally numbered pages, then you're soon only getting 20 new >> > tweets each time, plus 180 you've had before. There doesn't seem much >> > point in being able to set the count higher than 20 unless you're only >> > fetching page 1. Is this normal? >> >> > Second, I can't fetch tweets further back than page 41 (with 20 tweets >> > per page), which is also as far back as I can go on the website. Is >> > there any way to fetch tweets older than this? If not, will there be? >> >> > I'd really like to make a local copy of my tweets but can't see how to >> > do so at the moment. >> >> > Many thanks, >> > Phil >> >> -- >> Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
