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 |
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Returns a collection of the most recent Tweets posted by the authenticating user and the users they follow. |
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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. |