R help - Jan 2013 - Not getting enough tweets in twitteR

Hi all,

I am trying to download as many tweets as possible (say 1000). The
documentation states that the limit is 3200.

However when I run
police<-userTimeline('@nswpolice',n=1000) it returns random amounts.
When I
ran it today I got 144, yesterday it was around 300.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Sachin

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Is there a way to limit the tweets by date so that I can do multiple calls
to get the required number of tweets? For example, something in the lines
of:

police<-userTimeline('@**nswpolice',n=1000,since="01/12/2012",
to="01/01/2013")  #first call
police<-userTimeline('@**nswpolice',n=1000,since="01/11/2012",
to="01/12/2012")  #second call




On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Jeff Gentry <gentrj@hexdump.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Sachinthaka Abeywardana wrote:
>
>> I am trying to download as many tweets as possible (say 1000). The
>> documentation states that the limit is 3200.
>> However when I run
>> police<-userTimeline('@**nswpolice',n=1000) it returns
random amounts.
>> When I
>> ran it today I got 144, yesterday it was around 300.
>>
>
> The most likely explanation is that you're bumping into the API's
> limitation for time. The Twitter API typically will only give you results
> that go back for a few days, regardless of what you request.
>
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