I'm collecting all the tweets for potential 2012 presidential candidates, and I'm finding that /statuses/user_timeline returns much fewer tweets than listed as the total in an account. The docs say that this API call is limited to 3,200 tweets, but this is happening with accounts that have fewer than that number. For example:
@barackobama - Statuses_count from API and tweet count listed on profile is 2,467, but /statuses/user_timeline only delivers 1,033 tweets. @GovChristie - Statuses_count is 1,062, but API only delivers 1,038. This problem occurs in about 20% of the accounts I've checked. So either the tweets are no longer available, or the statuses_count is just wrong a lot of the time. This problem has persisted through 2 weeks of testing. Anyone else seeing the same problem? -- 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
