Receive multiple tweets for several users

[Michael Jester]

Hello,

I am currently using tweets_data to get the first tweet for a bunch of users. Would it be possible to get the Nth most recent tweets for a group of users?

[mike.wayn...@gmail.com]

Not to my knowledge. You'd have to pass the user IDs or screen names to the get_timeline() function. That'd return the most recent tweets for each user with a limit being 3200 tweets. 

Twitter's API rate limits dictate a maximum of 900 of these [timeline] requests per 15 minutes, which, if you get the max (3200) tweets per user, translates to about 56 users every 15 minutes.

Here's some example code of what i mean:

## get a data frame of users data
usrs <- search_users("\"rstats\"")


## get user timelines (up to 3200 of most recent tweets) using user IDs
tmls <- lapply(usrs$user_id[1:10], get_timeline, n = 3200)


## combine into single data frame
tmls <- do.call("rbind", tmls)