Hi Jenny, It does seem there is something wrong with those date stamps. I've asked the engineers to look into it.
Best, @themattharris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:01 AM, jenny <jloo...@gmail.com> wrote: > ack, sorry- sinceid issue was me being stupid with since_id/count > params. still wondering what's going on with the incorrect created_at > times though. > > On Jan 4, 5:26 pm, jenny <jloo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > lately I've noticed tweets with times out of order on twitter.com. for > > example, earlier todayhttp://twitter.com/#!/warrenellisshowed: > > > > Previous Marvel EIC Joe Quesada becomes Chief Creative Officer, to be > > addressed as "Comandante" > > 4 hours agohttp://twitter.com/#!/warrenellis/status/22352255088852993 > > > > Axel Alonso becomes new Editor In Chief of Marvel Comics, institutes > > celebratory beatings companywide > > 3 hours agohttp://twitter.com/#!/warrenellis/status/22351328088956928 > > ... > > The brilliant novelist @steveaylett is guest writer today at my site: > http://bit.ly/epD01V > > 4 hours agohttp://twitter.com/#!/warrenellis/status/22332045711646720 > > > > calling twurl /1/statuses/show/ for each of the above ids yields: > > 22352255088852993: > > <created_at>Tue Jan 04 20:29:07 +0000 2011</created_at> > > <statuses_count>12853</statuses_count> > > > > 22351328088956928: > > <created_at>Tue Jan 04 21:07:31 +0000 2011</created_at> > > <statuses_count>12852</statuses_count> > > > > 22332045711646720: > > <created_at>Tue Jan 04 20:00:10 +0000 2011</created_at> > > <statuses_count>12851</statuses_count> > > > > Is this expected? they're correctly sorted by status id, but the > > created_at times are out of order, and incorrect judging by the > > statuses_count. It looks like created_at values are used behind the > > scenes in some REST queries using sinceid, since if I try to get > > statuses since the middle tweet above, it won't include the first > > tweet, which has a higher status id but earlier created_at time: > > $ twurl /1/statuses/home_timeline.xml?sinceid=22351328088956928 | grep > > 22352255088852993 > > $ > > > > (to reproduce the sinceid bug you have to use tweets from people > > you're already following; if I start following warrenellis from > > another account after those tweets have happened, the above call > > includes the top tweet.) > > > > another example from my home timeline, in order shown on twitter.com > > earlier today: > > codinghorror Jeff Atwood > > A call to all community minded sysadminshttp://goo.gl/Vfo8P > > 4 hours ago > > (http://twitter.com/#!/codinghorror/status/22357712645918720, > > created_at = Tue Jan 04 18:24:28 +0000 2011) > > > > arstechnica Ars Technica > > Warrantless cell phone search gets a green light in California: > http://arst.ch/npoby @ejacqui > > 3 hours ago > > (http://twitter.com/#!/arstechnica/status/22357602243448833, > > created_at = Tue Jan 04 19:51:52 +0000 2011) > > > > BoingBoing Boing Boing > > In Egypt, an iPrayerhttp://bit.ly/gsFfHp > > 2 hours ago > > (http://twitter.com/#!/BoingBoing/status/22357128580694016, > > created_at = Tue Jan 04 21:08:45 +0000 2011) > > > > BoingBoing Boing Boing > > Cute, friendly, non-threatening bear hathttp://bit.ly/gKsaAP > > 4 hours ago > > (http://twitter.com/#!/BoingBoing/status/22357124545773568, > > created_at = Tue Jan 04 19:06:26 +0000 2011) > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
