I’ve created an embedded timeline, and it just doesn’t return the correct information. The test site is:
http://lmsctest.directlearn.co.uk/?page_id=709
The timeline searches on a hashtag, #lmscsite. The embedded timeline returns only three tweets (at the time of writing - it may have changed by the time you see it), and that’s it. However, if you look lower down, in the left hand column, there’s a section called “Site reports - use #lmscsite” - this returns six (actually, it returns a lot more, the display is just set to show 6 max). The widget showing in the left hand column is not from Twitter, it’s a third party developer’s (for Wordpress) and using, I assume, the API which is about to be discontinued. Basically, the embedded timeline doesn’t return all the tweets, whereas the third party solution does - but presumably no longer will after the API is discontinued.
Maybe part of the problem is that the embedded timeline possibly only shows the top tweets, not all the tweets? Doing a seach directly via twitter and selecting all tweets does return more - though it still loses some of the tweets that the third party solution shows.
I don’t really understand why the Twitter embedded timeline doesn’t return the same results as the third party solution - i.e. all the tweets using a given hashtag. Returning some, but not all, results just doesn’t seem to make sense to me.
