We don't have a method to download the entire friends_timeline for a user. If you search the boards or documentation you will find there is an artificial limit on the number of tweets you can download [1].
Please doing datamining often request access to the datamining feed and cache tweets as they come. 1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation#PaginationLimiting Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:26 AM, kanny <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am interested to do something deeper than the surface-level > processing of a user's incoming tweets. For this, I will need to > create a corpus of the user's friends_timeline over, say, past one > month or any computationally feasible period. Basically, a large > enough set of, say, 1-100 Million tweets for someone following > 100-1000 people. It would be only a one-time download, as afterwards, > incremental downloads should suffice. > > This would translate into 100MB-10 GB of download for a user. It could > be less for people following less or less-active people. Does Twitter > API provide support for such corpus creation ? It could be very > helpful for Natural Language Processing research if Twitter creates > some sample corpus of public_timeline or some selected user's > timelines. > > Looking forward to some help in this regard. > Thanks >
