get tweets by particular user using twitter4j java api

Question

I want to get tweets by particular user by entering its userId.

I can search for a text by:

     Query query = new Query("Hi");
        QueryResult result;
        do {
            result = twitter.search(query);
            List<Status> tweets = result.getTweets();
            for (Status tweet : tweets) {
                System.out.println("@" + tweet.getUser().getScreenName() + 
                     " - " + tweet.getText());
                }
            } while ((query = result.nextQuery()) != null); 

but how can I search for the tweets by entering particular userId, is there any direct method or I have to apply logic ?

I am trying:

            Status status = twitter.showStatus(id);
            if (status != null){
                System.out.println("@" + status.getUser().getScreenName()
                + " - " + status.getText());}

where id is userId, but by doing this, I am getting the error:

Failed to search tweets: 404:The URI requested is invalid or the resource requested, such as a user, does not exists. Also returned when the requested format is not supported by the requested method. message - No status found with that ID. code - 144

Can anyone please help me with this?

Answer 1

With the Twitter API you can get up to ~3200 tweets from an user, to do this you can get the time line from an specific user, see those questions

• Get tweets of a public twitter profile
• Twitter4J: Get all statuses from Twitter account

By the way, you are getting that error because you are using twitter.showStatus(id); with an userid, you need to call twitter.showUser(id) and you won't get that error