I use the Twitter API but I do not load with 800 tweets home_timeline and parameter since_id, I use objective c and iOS SDK, here is my code:
NSURL timelineURL * = [NSURL URLWithString: @ "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/home_timeline.json"];
NSDictionary * params = {@ @ "count": @ "200"
@ "since_id" @ "599964195245969408"};
// Create a request
SLRequest getUserTimeline * = [SLRequest requestForServiceType: SLServiceTypeTwitter
requestMethod: SLRequestMethodGET
URL: timelineURL
parameters: params];