#1

Hello there! :wave:
I’m working on a Twitter app that uses the Reverse Chronological API, the issue I’m having is with the start_time and end_time filters when I add them I always get empty results ({"meta"=>{"result_count"=>0}})
I know for sure that this user has tweets on the period so I’m in doubt if this is a problem on my side, supposedly I’m using the proper format for dates. Can you help me understand what the problem is?

Example request:

https://api.twitter.com/2/users/188842347/timelines/reverse_chronological?tweet.fields=attachments%2Cauthor_id%2Cconversation_id%2Ccreated_at%2Centities%2Cid%2Cin_reply_to_user_id%2Cpublic_metrics%2Creferenced_tweets&user.fields=id%2Cname%2Cprofile_image_url%2Curl%2Cusername%2Cverified&exclude=replies&expansions=author_id%2Creferenced_tweets.id.author_id&start_time=2022-01-01T09%3A00%3A00Z&end_time=2022-06-09T18%3A00%3A00Z

Response:

{"meta"=>{"result_count"=>0}}

Relevant fields unencoded:

"start_time": "2022-01-01T09:00:00Z",
"end_time": "2022-06-09T18:00:00Z"

PS: If I include max_results and remove the two time filters it works. Tried different combinations and dates and it looks like having at least one of the filters results in empty results.

#2

Tried with the TypeScript sdk and I get the same issue, empty results when passing either “start_time” or “end_time”. Could it be a format issue? When I try another format I get errors in the format though :man_shrugging: I’m confused with this one, please help :slight_smile:

#3

I think this might be related:

This endpoint has a per-user rate limit of 180 requests per 15-minute window and returns 800 of the most recent Tweets. Timelines introduction | Docs | Twitter Developer Platform

I think if the user has 800 tweets in their timeline that are more recent, you will not be able to go back that far.

#4

Tried with a more recent time window and now I see some results… Thanks for bringing this up I didn’t understand very well how the start and end_times worked :+1:

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