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Twitter, get all Tweets of the last 24 hours

I'm working on an application that needs to show all tweets of a certain user made in the last 24 hours. Is there a convenient way using the REST-API? I would like to avoid some kind of caching mechanism using the timeline. Thank you :)

Solution

  • The only thing you can do with the Twitter REST API is something like this :

    Timeline resTimeline = downloadTimeline();
Tweet lastTweet = resTimeline.get(resTimeline.size() - 1);

while (lastTweet is younger than 24 hours) {
    TweetID lastTweetID = lastTweet.id;
    Timeline bufferTimeline = downloadTimeline(max_id = lastTweetID);
    resTimeline.addAll(bufferTimeline);
    lastTweet = resTimeline.get(resTimeline.size() - 1);
}

return resTimeline;