If you don't want to limit it to only your friends you could just
search for #bh and do what you will with the results... unless there
is a conflicting #bh tag being used for something else?

-Chad

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Nial <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Over at http://birdhive.net, we track our friend timeline to find
> people who have marked tweets with the #bh hashtag. Until very
> recently, I thought that passing the optional since parameter in my
> request would return all tweets in that timespan. It was only recently
> that I realised it just returned the default 20 tweets, filtered to
> fit into that timespan. A big goof on my part.
>
> As a result, we've been missing some tweets. In response, I've set the
> count parameter to it's maximum of 200 and have increased the
> frequency of my cron script. But this still seems shaky. I feel I
> should be using the search API, but can't find a way to filter results
> to only show a friends tweets.
>
> Any suggestions?
>

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