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On Sep 30, 5:19 pm, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com>
wrote:
> Theorizing from the outside-in on our capacity issues aside, I'm a big
> advocate for a bulk status/show or lookup function. We're definitely
> giving that a lot of thought at the moment.
>
> Taylor
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Considering Twitter can support returning the ids of almost 300,000
> > followers then 40,000 tweets should be easy.
> >http://api.twitter.com/1/followers/ids.json?screen_name=rsarver
>
> > Abraham
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> > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 14:04, Orian Marx (@orian) <or...@orianmarx.com>
> > wrote:
>
> >> This should probably be a separate thread, but... what about a bulk
> >> tweet lookup using status_ids for one very specific use case: turning
> >> search results into proper tweets and avoiding all the other issues
> >> that exist with the current implementation? I know bulk tweet lookup
> >> by id has been asked before and the response is it's the same capacity
> >> issue of accessing old tweets from storage. Okay, so what about a bulk
> >> tweet lookup limited to timestamps that fall within whatever range
> >> search capacity is currently at (ya know, like the last seven days)? I
> >> bet this could actually reduce the number of calls developers are
> >> making when dealing with converting search result items into proper
> >> status objects.
>
> >> On Sep 30, 4:57 pm, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > I'll agree with all of you that'd it be valuable for us to do this.
>
> >> > The current state of availability of tweets is a capacity issue. It's
> >> > not in anyway a deliberate prevention of access.
>
> >> > As for since_id in this context -- it'd be great if it'd work to just
> >> > use since_id=1, but it doesn't. I don't even think it'd work if you
> >> > knew the very first status id that the user had ever posted.. because
> >> > in most cases, that status id would be unknown to the back end
> >> > transport layer (for the same reason it can't access the tweet
> >> > itself).
>
> >> > If we could provide a means today to allow complete traversal of a
> >> > user_timeline for a specific user with over ~3200 tweets, we would --
> >> > and I'm pretty confident we will. But not today and not tomorrow.
>
> >> > Taylor
>
> >> > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:43 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
>
> >> > <zn...@borasky-research.net> wrote:
> >> > > Retrieving one's GMail, for example, if one wants to delete the
> >> > > account, is
> >> > > a decidedly non-trivial exercise. Perhaps it's simple with Outlook,
> >> > > but
> >> > > KMail, Evolution and Thunderbird all gave me a ration of doo-doo in
> >> > > the
> >> > > process, and I'm not sure I did it right.
> >> > > --
> >> > > M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
> >> > >http://borasky-research.nethttp://twitter.com/znmeb
>
> >> > > "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul
> >> > > Erdos
>
> >> > > Quoting "Orian Marx (@orian)" <or...@orianmarx.com>:
>
> >> > >> It remains a good idea. Imagine if Gmail only let you retrieve your
> >> > >> last 3200 messages even if you had 40,000.
>
> >> > >> On Sep 30, 4:20 pm, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <zn...@borasky-
> >> > >> research.net> wrote:
>
> >> > >>> I also posted a request a long time ago that an authenticated user
> >> > >>> be
> >> > >>> able to retrieve all of his own tweets, back beyond the 16-page
> >> > >>> limit.
> >> > >>> In retrospect, now that I'm within shooting distance of 40,000 I'm
> >> > >>> not
> >> > >>> sure how good an idea that is. ;-)
>
> >> > >>> --
> >> > >>> M. Edward (Ed)
> >> > >>> Boraskyhttp://borasky-research.nethttp://twitter.com/znmeb
>
> >> > >>> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -
> >> > >>> Paul
> >> > >>> Erdos
>
> >> > >>> Quoting Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com>:
>
> >> > >>> > Here is a closed feature request from forever ago to return the
> >> > >>> >  status_id of
> >> > >>> > all statuses for a user. Maybe Twitter wil reconsider the request.
>
> >> > >>> >http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=379
>
> >> > >>> > Abraham
> >> > >>> > -------------
> >> > >>> > Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate |http://abrah.am
> >> > >>> > @abraham |http://projects.abrah.am|http://blog.abrah.am
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>
> >> > >>> > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:32, linuslive <michael.c....@gmail.com>
> >> > >>> > wrote:
>
> >> > >>> >> Hmmm...but there is no way to know the ids of the tweets without
> >> > >>> >> having a list of all of the tweets, which would kind of defeat
> >> > >>> >> the
> >> > >>> >> purpose of the limit.
>
> >> > >>> >> Oh well...
>
> >> > >>> >> On Sep 30, 12:39 pm, Tom van der Woerdt <i...@tvdw.eu> wrote:
> >> > >>> >> > Only the 3200 most recent ones, unless you know the IDs of the
> >> > >>> >> > tweets.
>
> >> > >>> >> > Tom
>
> >> > >>> >> > On 9/30/10 5:09 PM, linuslive wrote:
>
> >> > >>> >> > > Good morning all!
>
> >> > >>> >> > > Before the OAuth change, I wrote a twitter archiver that
> >> > >>> >> > >  would
> >> > >>> >> > > grab my
> >> > >>> >> > > tweets and dump them into a database.  Back then I only had
> >> > >>> >> > > about
> >> > >>> >> > > 1K
> >> > >>> >> > > tweets so I was able to grab all my tweets without hitting
> >> > >>> >> > > the
> >> > >>> >> > > limit.
> >> > >>> >> > > And of course since then, I don't post more than 20 tweets a
> >> > >>> >> > > day.
>
> >> > >>> >> > > But today, I was curious to see if I could use the new OAuth
> >> > >>> >> > > to
> >> > >>> >> > > retrieve my timeline, starting from my first tweet.  I can't
> >> > >>> >> > > seem
> >> > >>> >> > > to
> >> > >>> >> > > get it.
>
> >> > >>> >> > > Here are my parameters:
>
> >> > >>> >> > > > >http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=linu.
> >> > >>> >> ..
>
> >> > >>> >> > > When I do this, it only gives me the top 200 tweets.  It
> >> > >>> >> > >  doesn't
> >> > >>> >> > > start
> >> > >>> >> > > from the beginning and give me my 200 oldest tweets, as I
> >> > >>> >> > > would
> >> > >>> >> > > expect.
>
> >> > >>> >> > > I've tried various since_id's, even retrieving my first
> >> > >>> >> > > tweet:
> >> > >>> >> > >http://twitter.com/linuslive/statuses/872090728
>
> >> > >>> >> > > Which equals
>
> >> > >>> >> > > > >http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=linu.
> >> > >>> >> ..
>
> >> > >>> >> > > And I get the same response.
>
> >> > >>> >> > > According to twitter, I have 3682 tweets, just over the 3200
> >> > >>> >> > > limit
> >> > >>> >> > > according
> >> > >>> >> > > tohttp://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/user_timeline.
> >> > >>> >> > > The confusing thing is that the documentation does not make
> >> > >>> >> > > it
> >> > >>> >> > > clear
> >> > >>> >> > > that it's 3200 of the most recent tweets, or just 3200 per
> >> > >>> >> > > session.
>
> >> > >>> >> > > Could I get a clarification on this?
>
> >> > >>> >> > > Thanks!- Hide quoted text -
>
> >> > >>> >> > - Show quoted text -
>
> >> > >>> >> --
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