On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Scott Haneda<[email protected]> wrote: > If I use REST, then I am not sure how I would do this other than paging > through the users timeline, which would take a long time.
Bingo. But, keep in mind you can only page back 3000 tweets (unless things have changed...), so you might not be able to get the first tweet afterall. > I find that > myfirsttweet.com is able to give very fast results. They may do caching, so if you've been before it just stores the result. Otherwise, since they are whitelisted they can loop through the pages quickly w/o fear of rate-limiting. -Chad
