Yes, this is an unfortunate uncertainty that's a result of the way we're forced to cache some things in our current system. In the next version, every active user will be able to get their friends_timeline going back a fixed number of days.
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:39 PM, TCI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmmmm, if I read you correctly then it is 6 hours for me, could be 3 > for a user following more people and up to 12 for someone following > few people. This introduces uncertainty as one cannot know if there > were no tweets during a particular timeframe or one has reached that > moving limit. Any way to tell? We're showing twitts per hour and these > two conditions would be displayed differently. > > On Oct 25, 12:06 pm, "Alex Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Depending on how many people you follow, we may not have your >> friends_timeline going back that far. The more people you follow, the >> bigger that timeline is, and the less we can store for long durations. >> >> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:26 PM, TCI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > The documentation for friends_timeline indicates that if you pass a >> > since parameter you get up to 24 hours back. I am getting nothing past >> > 6 hours back, and it's working perfectly for those 6 hours... >> > Any hints? >> > R >> >> -- >> Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
