Hi Alexandre,
You should be able to access up to 3200 Tweets (including Retweets) for your
account though the user_timeline method. If this isn't the case let our user
support team know so they can check nothing has got confused in your
account. You can contact them through:
http://bit.ly/twicket
Best,
@themattharris
Developer Advocate, Twitter
http://twitter.com/themattharris
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Cisneiros <alexan...@cisneiros.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm developing an application that has to analyse as much tweets of a
> user as possible (all of them would be the optimal case, but the API
> returns up to 3200 tweets, but no big deal).
>
> The problem is that I'm getting a different amount of tweets for every
> user I try. With my personal account, I can get about 470 tweets (3
> pages of 200 tweets). When I try to get the 4th page, it returns
> blank. You can try it out with my account;
>
> http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/Cisneiros.json?count=200&page=3
> <--- has tweets
>
> http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/Cisneiros.json?count=200&page=4
> <--- hasn't tweets (as of jan 4rd, 2011 / 12:11 AM -03:00)
>
> I tried to get my tweets while authenticated on my girlfriend's
> account, instead of mine, but got the same results. No matter who is
> authenticated, I get the same number of tweets for every user I try
> (but they differ between themselves).
>
> If I try another user, I can get more pages (like 15 pages of 200, for
> example). Other users just return 2 pages...
> I really have no idea whats happening. I know that this method strips
> the retweets, but I don't retweet that much to, from 3200 status, have
> only 470 real updates by me.
>
> If anyone can give a light on how to fetch all possible tweets from a
> user, I you really appreciate. I have done lots of searching, but
> found nothing to help me solving this.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Alexandre Cisneiros Filho.
>
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