Twitter is planning on allowing users to access *all* of their statuses in the future. I recall this being a technical limitation.
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 12:41, A.K <glenda.ka...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, Alex. > > I have a interest about this topic. > > You said "That limit will be lifted in the future". > Which is means, > 1. twitter stored all statuses more than 3200 posts > or > 2. now, twitter stored statuses and discard it more than 3200 > > Now, My friend want to get all statuses that was posted by him. > (he has over 20,000 statuses since about a half year ago) > So, I want to know "is it CAN or CANNOT in the future?" . > > I'm sorry for my poor english. > I and my friends are enjoying Twitter! Thank you! Alex. > > Regards, > Aki, Japan. > On Dec 31 2008, 4:18 am, "Alex Payne" <a...@twitter.com> wrote: > > 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 > -- Abraham Williams | http://the.hackerconundrum.com Web608 | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from: Madison Wi United States.
