That would be very nice, but at this time it looks like count is the only way to go.
Twitter: +1 for a since_id -Joel On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Sameer <sameer.kha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, my question is in regards to the Stream API and how to deal > with getting statuses when the connection was lost. I was wondering > if there was another way to retrieve older status messages other then > using the count parameter? It seems using the count parameter may be > inaccurate since estimating an average number of statuses per second > can be flawed due to spikes or other abnormal circumstances. Is it > possible to pass a status_id of the last status and get all new > statuses from that point on? Or perhaps pass a time stamp? > > If you could help it would be greatly appreciated, it is important > that I maintain a complete stream of status messages. >
