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?