You could always get a static IP and have us whitelist that :) On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:35, Kyle Tolle <kyle.to...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am still encountering these issues. Wondering if I could get any > help here. > I feel bad bumping, but it's better than spawning another thread. > > Thanks, > Kyle > > On Mar 10, 10:08 am, Kyle Tolle <kyle.to...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I first make a call tohttp://twitter.com/users/show/username.xmlto >> get the number of tweets. >> I then set the count to something like 500, and determine the number >> of pages. >> With these, I >> callhttp://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/username.xml?page=##&count=## >> (Note: The API says you can have a count up to 3200, but any time I >> try that, I get an error.) >> >> So I believe I'm paging through the statuses/user_timeline corrects. I >> have the very first and lastest tweets I've made, but somehow there >> are 6 missing in between. >> >> Also, is there a way to >> callhttp://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/username.xml >> with authentication? I have my twitter account whitelisted with 20k >> api calls per hour, but my machines are on DHCP so I can't have an IP >> whitelisted. I got rate limited earlier with the aforementioned calls, >> so I suspect they aren't being authed. >> >> I appreciate the help! >> >> On Mar 10, 9:29 am, Doug Williams <d...@twitter.com> wrote: >> >> > Kyle, >> > Can you give an example of the calls you are using to get user tweets? >> > It sounds like you need to page through the statuses/user_timeline >> > method [1]. Where are you having problems? >> >> > [1] -http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation#usertimeline >> >> > Doug Williams >> > Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw >> >> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Kyle Tolle <kyle.to...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > > I've had trouble getting all the tweets for users while using an app >> > > to pull down what should be the entire list of tweets for that user. >> > > Is this the sort of restriction you mention? >> > > I'm not even really sure how to go about seeing which ones are missing >> > > to see if there is a pattern. >> > > I'd really like to make an archive/statistical utility, but it will >> > > not do well at either if it can't get all the tweets! >> >> > > I see these sorts of threads have been around for years... just >> > > wondering how much progress has been made on it. >> >> > > On Mar 9, 6:07 pm, Alex Payne <a...@twitter.com> wrote: >> > >> We retain any and all tweets that aren't deleted by users. We have all >> > >> the tweets ever :) >> >> > >> We have some artificial limits in place restricting how far back in >> > >> time/pages you retrieve tweets. As our data stores increase in >> > >> reliability for large working sets, we'll be able to lift these >> > >> restrictions and provide a reasonable quality of service to API >> > >> clients. >> >> > >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 13:07, shapper <mdmo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > >> > Hello, >> >> > >> > When are tweets archived? >> > >> > It depends of how long they were created or twitter keeps always N >> > >> > tweets visible? >> >> > >> > Can I access older tweets? And can followers access my older tweets? >> >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Miguel >> >> > >> -- >> > >> Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x >
-- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
