Unless these messages are known to be in the same timeline where you could parse them out, you have to use serial requests of statuses/ show.
You can always open a new enhancement issue, as this is something that I know a number of people would like: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list @dougw On Feb 4, 10:14 am, skieter <[email protected]> wrote: > I have read through the documentation for REST API and Search API and > could not find an answer to this. > > Is there a way to retrieve multiple status messages in a single > request? i.e. I have status ids 1234, 1235, 1236 and would request > usinghttp://twitter.com/statuses/index.xml?id[0]=1234&id[1]=1235&id[3]=1236. > > I would prefer not to hit the server for each message individually.
