home_timeline.json returns too less tweets and some aren't visilbe on the web

[mlowicki]

I'm getting data via http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/home_timeline.json
with ajax request but lately i get very strange results. I'm asking by
default for last 25 tweets (count=25) but i get sometimes less. Right
now for my screen (mlowicki) in app we're developing I get 21 and
timeline is different (see how it see in widget - http://twitpic.com/2qtwuu,
and in the browser - http://twitpic.com/2qtx0h). In widget after
helmer's tweet i get 4 tweets that aren't visible in the browser. And
that is strange relation - I get 25 - 4 = 21 tweets. We checked that
before when my friend got 24 instead of 25 and one tweets wasn't
visible in the web as well. Any ideas?

BR,
Michał Łowicki

[Tom van der Woerdt]

Actually, count=x tells twitter to get x results from the database, not to return x items. Deleted tweets etc are counted as well: they are in the database but don't get returned.

Tom

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[mlowicki]

But tweets that are displayed in widget but not on the web aren't
deleted. In some reason there is difference in these timelines. Btw is
any way to get exactly x items or some other way to detect when "more"
button should be displayed?

On Sep 22, 12:31 pm, Tom van der Woerdt <i...@tvdw.eu> wrote:
> Actually, count=x tells twitter to get x results from the database, not to return x items. Deleted tweets etc are counted as well: they are in the database but don't get returned.
>
> Tom
>

> On Sep 22, 2010, at 12:11 PM, mlowicki <mlowi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I'm getting data viahttp://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/home_timeline.json

> > with ajax request but lately i get very strange results. I'm asking by
> > default for last 25 tweets (count=25) but i get sometimes less. Right
> > now for my screen (mlowicki) in app we're developing I get 21 and

> > timeline is different (see how it see in widget -http://twitpic.com/2qtwuu,
> > and in the browser -http://twitpic.com/2qtx0h). In widget after

[mlowicki]

The same situation now:

widget - http://twitpic.com/2quvs7
web - http://twitpic.com/2quvx1

In widget there are 4 tweets between first operatester's tweet and
last visible by Yahoo that aren't visible on the web.

[mlowicki]

After some time in timeline on the web missing tweets are shown... but
still from time to time i get wrong results in app.

On Sep 22, 2:23 pm, mlowicki <mlowi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The same situation now:
>
> widget -http://twitpic.com/2quvs7

> web -http://twitpic.com/2quvx1

[Taylor Singletary]

Hi mlowicki,

There's no way to absolutely guarantee the number of results from the
home_timeline. However, you certainly can make it more predictable by
including the ?include_rts=true parameter when making your request.
This includes retweets in the payload, which, in most cases, are
probably the missing tweets you are looking for.

Taylor

[mlowicki]

Hi Taylor!
There problem aren't retweets. I got retweets in the timeline. Btw in
the home_timeline there isn't include_rts parameter (http://
dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/home_timeline) at least there isn't
in the documentation.

On Sep 22, 4:02 pm, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com>
wrote: