Get Tweet timelines

A timeline is simply a list, or an aggregated stream of Tweets.  The Twitter API has several endpoints that return a timeline of Tweet data - see the table below for more details:

API endpoint Description

GET statuses / home_timeline

Returns a collection of the most recent Tweets posted by the authenticating user and the users they follow.
GET statuses / user_timeline
Returns a collection of the most recent Tweets posted by the indicated by the screen_name or user_id parameters.
GET statuses/mentions_timeline
Returns the 20 most recent mentions (Tweets containing a users’s @handle) for the authenticating user.