Right now there's a limit on the number of statuses one can retrieve from one's user_timeline. That limit will be lifted in the future - it's imposed by technical limitations, not policy.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:28, Magnus O. <mag...@magnusottosson.se> wrote: > > Hi, > > Have I undertand it correctly that there is no way to retrieve status > messages older than the latest 3200 messages from a user? > > I'm writing a kind of blog software that retrieves my status and blog > messages from lot's of different services like twitter. > > I would like to keep the entire history so that all messages are > availible on my site. What Iäm doing is that I retrieve all messages > when my webapplication startsup and I will then hold it in the memory > so I do not have to make requests against the twitter api on every > pageview. > > Up until now I have stored the messages in a local db but I would like > to avoid that since the goal of my project is to NOT store any data > myself. > > So my question is if it is possible to retrieve more than 3200 > messages via the API? > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
