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tommeagher / heroku_ebooks

An archive of a script to generate Markov chains and to post to an _ebooks account on Twitter using Heroku. No longer actively supported.
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Won't recognize older tweets #32

Closed FlamingOranges closed 7 years ago

tommeagher commented 7 years ago

Hi @FlamingOranges, I'm not sure what you mean by this. Can you give me some specifics? What do you mean by "won't recognize"?

darrinhenein commented 7 years ago

Seeing something similar—only finding 963 of my 13K+ tweets.

tommeagher commented 7 years ago

Ahhh, @darrinhenein, I think I see what you mean. The Twitter API will only give you the 3,200 most recent tweets from an account, even if it's yours. The script then cycles through those and removes any retweets. If 2/3s of your recent tweets are retweeting other accounts, that's likely what's happening.