Twitter API JSON call not getting latest 3 Tweets

Question

I have some JS that retrieves the latest 3 tweets, which is returned as JSON from Twitter.

Suddenly, today, only 2 Tweets were showing. I noticed twitter limits this latest to the last 7 days. Fine I thought, so I tweet again...however, still, only 2 tweets are showing, despite there being more than 3 tweets made in the last week.

Here is my URL I am calling:

https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=tokheimgroup&count=3&callback=?

If you then examine this page:

https://twitter.com/tokheimgroup

You'll notice that in the JSON returned from the first link, the re-tweet is not being returned as the 3rd tweet. Is there an additional parameter to include re-tweets?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You have to include &include_rts=1:

https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=tokheimgroup&count=3&include_rts=1&callback=?

Answer 2

It's ok, I managed to figure this out.

When getting 3 tweets (or whatever number) Twitter doesn't include by default re-tweets, but still counts to the number you're looking for. This in my opinion is wrong, but hey, that's how they have it set up.

To include retweets as part of this number, you need to set the paramaer:

include_rts=true

So now my original URL looks something like this:

https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=tokheimgroup&count=3&include_rts=true&callback=?

Phew!

Hope this helps someone.