It remains a good idea. Imagine if Gmail only let you retrieve your last 3200 messages even if you had 40,000.
On Sep 30, 4:20 pm, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <zn...@borasky- research.net> wrote: > I also posted a request a long time ago that an authenticated user be > able to retrieve all of his own tweets, back beyond the 16-page limit. > In retrospect, now that I'm within shooting distance of 40,000 I'm not > sure how good an idea that is. ;-) > > -- > M. Edward (Ed) Boraskyhttp://borasky-research.nethttp://twitter.com/znmeb > > "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos > > Quoting Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com>: > > > > > Here is a closed feature request from forever ago to return the status_id of > > all statuses for a user. Maybe Twitter wil reconsider the request. > > >http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=379 > > > Abraham > > ------------- > > Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate |http://abrah.am > > @abraham |http://projects.abrah.am|http://blog.abrah.am > > This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. > > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:32, linuslive <michael.c....@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> 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 - > > >> -- > >> Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc > >> API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi > >> Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > >>http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > >> Change your membership to this group: > >>http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > > > -- > > Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc > > API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi > > Issues/Enhancements Tracker:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > > Change your membership to this group: > >http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
