Maybe I am looking at the wrong thing but I don't find anything in the
API for retrieving someone's updates. This is the list of methods I am
looking at:

http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-API-Documentation


On Jun 30, 4:52 pm, DWRoelands <duane.roela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, I see.
>
> This is certainly doable.  Your application would need to sign into
> your account (Basic Auth is probably fine if it's just for your own
> use), and retrieve your friends' updates.  This is already in the API.
>
> What the API doesn't have is any "Save" functionality, so you would
> need to write your own code that goes through the list of updates and
> saves them to disk.  It would not be hard to code at all.
>
> The more I think about this, the more I think I might add this feature
> to the Twitter client I'm writing. :)
>
> --Duane
>
> On Jun 30, 4:24 pm, Richie <richie.mor...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I want to download their tweets - as I said. I don't want to just see
> > them in my list on Twitter. I want to download their tweets and store
> > them in an archive on my local machine.
>
> > On Jun 30, 4:19 pm, DWRoelands <duane.roela...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Could you be a little more specific?
>
> > > If you follow another user, their tweets will show up in your list of
> > > friends' updates.  Does that not do what you need it to do?
>
> > > On Jun 30, 2:13 pm, Richie <richie.mor...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Is there a way using the Twitter API to subscribe to a user and
> > > > download their tweets using a web server whenever they update?

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