Home tweets count

[Georgooty varghese]

Dear Twitter,
 I have developed a twitter client in C. I have 1 question about home tweet url response. I need total home tweet count from its response.
How to get total home tweet count?. Is it possible.  How?

Could you please help me.

Regards,
George

[Taylor Singletary]

Hi George,

It's not possible to determine how many tweets might be in a home timeline for a particular user. Well, for users who follow very few people and have had an account open for a very short period of time -- you might be able to determine just based on how far the data paginates... but that's not reliable at scale. It's best to consider a home timeline (and really any timeline) as theoretically infinite (though there are system constraints as to how many tweets are available for access at any one time).

Taylor

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