I will say this as well - I tried all the same tests with my personal
account and always got back 20 results.

Maybe this *is* an issue on Twitter's side, with accounts that have a
small number of tweets?

On Feb 8, 10:01 pm, Matt Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Craig,
>
> Can you you share the actual requests you are making, including the OAuth
> parameters you are sending. I can then take a look at what might be
> happening. Also, if you can let me know your screen_name I can see if I get
> the same response querying your user_timeline.
>
> Best,
> @themattharris
> Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris
>
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:17 PM, craigpierce <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello. I checked the bug ticket list, several pages back on this
> > discussion list and the FAQ - I don't see this particular issue
> > anywhere, but please forgive me if it has been discussed before (and
> > please point me towards the solution!)...
>
> > Facts:
>
> > * I am using the TwitterOAuth PHP class fromhttp://abrah.am
> > * I am creating a full Twitter client, not just a widget with my
> > latest tweets
> > * I am getting the home timeline from my app's Twitter account. So far
> > I have 1 tweet and am following only my personal account which has 66
> > tweets
> > * The page I'm testing with is a PHP page that only has a call to
> > "home_timeline" that then var_dump's the result - that's all it's
> > doing, nothing else
> > * I have tried this call with various parameters (as follows, where
> > $con is the TwitterOAuth object):
>
> > $con->get("statuses/home_timeline");
> > $con->get("statuses/home_timeline", array("include_rts" => true));
> > $con->get("statuses/home_timeline", array("include_rts" => true,
> > "count" => 20));
>
> > Issue:
>
> > When I refresh the page, about 80% of the time I get 3 tweets: my app
> > account's 1 sent tweet and 2 from my personal account that are more
> > recent than that one. The other 20% of the time I get 19 tweets: those
> > 3 plus 16 from my personal account from before my app account's one
> > sent tweet. These results remain consistent no matter what I try: it's
> > either 3 or 19, never 20.
>
> > My app account's home timeline on Twitter.com shows me 3, and has
> > never shown me more, no matter how often I refresh.
>
> > Is it my choice of PHP class? If so, is there a better option? And if
> > not, then what gives?!
>
> > Also, how many tweets *should* be returned? Twitter's website only
> > shows me 3, but what if I want to see tweets in my home timeline from
> > before I was "Twitter born"?
>
> > Thanks in advance! Craig
>
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