I just use and external program: bti [1] and let it handle authentication (there is a set up step). That works beautifully for two cronjobs: CRANberries [2] (which has tweeted thousands of times) and the CRAN Repo Policy changes watcher [3] which tweets whenever the policy document is updated. I use bti because the R twitter clients were at the times shutout from twitter, and I also had a devil of a time making them work. I never looked back.
That said, I have not attempted to read in bulk. Hth, Dirk [1] By Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman, see https://github.com/gregkh/bti [2] http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/ [3] https://github.com/eddelbuettel/crp -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel