I am working on a Twitter project in which I need to retrieve the oldest replies to a specific user from a given status id.
Example: Status ID: 105 Status ID: 104 Status ID: 103 Status ID: 102 Status ID: 101 Status ID: 100 I want to retrieve the 2 oldest replies since id 100. If I use the API with the since_id (100) and count (2) parameters it returns ids 105 and 104. I need 101 and 102. As I understand the API, in order to achieve this I need to select all of the replies using the since_id parameter and then using the page parameter, iterate through the pages until I get to a point where I have received all of the replies since the specified id as there is no "number of pages" response. This is not a problem when the application has a small number of replies to process. When the application gets to a point where it has 100k replies every 10 minutes, this will be a problem. Is there a better way to get the oldest replies since a particular id? It seems that iterating through pages would quickly deplete one's rate limit (especially when trying to be as friendly to the API as possible). Are there any plans to allow for a "get oldest since id" parameter? Are there any plans for "page count" return result to avoid needless iterating through results that aren't needed in my application? Thanks in advance for any help or insight that can be provided.
