The end result will likely be the same once the bug is fixed, but the only guarantee we're making is that you'll be able to get all of your own tweets.
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:02 AM, atog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Alex, > > Can the same thing be said for any other (public) user? I mean, should > it only be possible the get all of your own tweets or should you be > able to get all tweets from any public user? > > Kind regards, > > Koen. > > On Oct 21, 5:50 pm, "Alex Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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/entryandwe'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 > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
