#1

As the title states. I want to know what does the Total count of tweets at a user’s profile represent?

tweets_count

Like obviously it includes their Tweets but does it also include those tweets which they reply to other users? and let’s say if that count says 250 Tweets, and if i count total number of tweets on that user’s timeline and only find like ~200 Tweets, where are those remaining tweets? Are those the tweets which that user deleted? or maybe those tweets are removed by twitter?
I am doing some research for my Masters in CS, so I wanted to be clear on what actually is counted as a tweet, and why there can be a difference b/w the number of tweets shown on the profile page vs total tweets shown on their timeline?
Also is it possible that user’s timeline tweets count can be different for people of different countries? e.g. lets say a user xyz has 200 tweets count on their profile and a person explores xyz's timeline from UK and another person explores xyz's timeline from USA, could it be possible that they may get different count of tweets that they see?

#2

The count includes tweets, replies and retweets (a RT is actually a new tweet linked to the original one)

You may not get whole list of the Tweets associated with a Twitter user when

  1. The user deleted some tweets
  2. User have deleted old tweets and he/she had more than 3200 before the deletion. Since only last 3200 Tweets can be accessible via API (also via Twitter website) at anytime. If you delete 3200 today, you create a milestone on your Tweet history, and you most probably will only get new tweets after today when you check your last 3200 tweets.
  3. RTs and replies may not be reachable due to the original one deleted, or account owner is suspended.
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#3

Thanks for the reply.
I have a few more questions.

Related to what you stated above, If let’s say I have 3201 tweets in my twitter account and someone tries to browse through my entire timeline, they’ll see 3200 tweets.
Now If I delete my latest 3200 tweets but leave the last 1 tweet intact, would someone browsing my timeline see that tweet or not?

Just to clarify. If I reply to someone and they delete that tweet, my reply won’t be shown on my profile either? If this is the case, would you be kind enough to explain why that is so? I mean for retweets it makes sense, but for replies it kinda doesn’t. Like in case of a quoted tweet even after the original tweet gets deleted my tweet would still show up on my account. So same could be done for replies?

#4

1- If you delete the most recent 3,200, they see nothing by browsing your Tweets (even via the API.)
2- Ok, It seems a part of my answer is not clear and confusing. Your reply is a standalone Tweet posted by you. When the original Tweet deleted, your reply may still appear in searches. What I was trying to say that, one profile may show nothing when you check his/her tweets if the most recent 3,200 deleted, yet it may show “15K” tweets under the Tweet count section on their profile. These 15K Tweets are only reachable via searches or via the original Tweets, they’re connected (related.)
3- I don’t think so for most of the countries. However, some users and tweets might get blocked by court order in authoritarian regimes, and Twitter hides it for the users in that very country.

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#5

thanks for clearing this up. :slightly_smiling_face:

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