Hmmm...but there is no way to know the ids of the tweets without
having a list of all of the tweets, which would kind of defeat the
purpose of the limit.

Oh well...

On Sep 30, 12:39 pm, Tom van der Woerdt <i...@tvdw.eu> wrote:
> Only the 3200 most recent ones, unless you know the IDs of the tweets.
>
> Tom
>
> On 9/30/10 5:09 PM, linuslive wrote:
>
>
>
> > Good morning all!
>
> > Before the OAuth change, I wrote a twitter archiver that would grab my
> > tweets and dump them into a database.  Back then I only had about 1K
> > tweets so I was able to grab all my tweets without hitting the limit.
> > And of course since then, I don't post more than 20 tweets a day.
>
> > But today, I was curious to see if I could use the new OAuth to
> > retrieve my timeline, starting from my first tweet.  I can't seem to
> > get it.
>
> > Here are my parameters:
> >http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=linu...
>
> > When I do this, it only gives me the top 200 tweets.  It doesn't start
> > from the beginning and give me my 200 oldest tweets, as I would
> > expect.
>
> > I've tried various since_id's, even retrieving my first tweet:
> >http://twitter.com/linuslive/statuses/872090728
>
> > Which equals
> >http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=linu...
>
> > And I get the same response.
>
> > According to twitter, I have 3682 tweets, just over the 3200 limit
> > according tohttp://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/user_timeline.
> > The confusing thing is that the documentation does not make it clear
> > that it's 3200 of the most recent tweets, or just 3200 per session.
>
> > Could I get a clarification on this?
>
> > Thanks!- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

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