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Asked: 2026-06-18T05:50:06+00:00

I am using the Twitter rubygem and my goal is to retrieve all 1500

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I am using the Twitter rubygem and my goal is to retrieve all 1500 search results of a search.
Currently:

Twitter.search("test", :count => 1500).results.map do |status|
    i = i+1
end
puts i

The :count does not seem to matter, it only retrieves 100 tweets at most.
This in itself is weird to me as one page of twitter results should return only 20 tweets.
I couldn’t find an official doc (sigh~) and digging in the spec didn’t help.
Anyone knows how to “turn pages” with this thing, or tell it to do it by itself?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Twitter’s API may be the limiting factor here, not the gem. – Andrew Marshall

    I was mistaken, I mixed up “users/search” with “search/tweets” in the Twitter API, the limit seems to be a hundred for the later and a thousand for the first. It’s working as intended =)

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