Timelines

Overview

Timelines is at the core of Twitter. They are a collection of tweets that are based on a user. At the current time you can access 4 types of Timelines.

• Home Timeline : Tweets displayed in the authenticated user timeline.
• User Timeline : Tweets displayed in a user timeline.
• Mention Timeline : Returns the most recent mentions (tweets containing a users’s @screen_name) for the authenticated user.
• Retweets of Tweet Timeline : Returns the most recent tweets authored by the authenticating user that have been retweeted by others.

Each of this Timeline can be invoked simply using Timeline.Get...Timeline();. Additionally each of these methods have their own specific Parameters class that can be used to have more control over the request you want to perform.

IMPORTANT NOTE : Timelines should not be used to get live content. If you need to refresh the Timeline of a specific user more than once every minute it probably means that you want to use a Stream.

Home Timeline

// Get the latest 40 tweets published on your timeline
var tweets = Timeline.GetHomeTimeline();

// Get more control over the request with a HomeTimelineParameters
var homeTimelineParameter = new HomeTimelineParameters
{
    MaximumNumberOfTweetsToRetrieve = 100,
    // ... setup additional parameters
};

var tweets = Timeline.GetHomeTimeline(homeTimelineParameter);

User Timeline

// Get the latest 40 tweets published on the user timeline
var tweets = Timeline.GetUserTimeline(<user_identifier>);

// Get more control over the request with a UserTimelineParameters
var userTimelineParameters = new UserTimelineParameters();
var tweets = Timeline.GetUserTimeline(<user_identifier>, userTimelineParameters);

Mention Timeline

// Get the latest 40 tweets published on the mentions timeline
var tweets = Timeline.GetMentionsTimeline(mentionsTimelineParameters);

// Get more control over the request with a MentionsTimelineParameters
var mentionsTimelineParameters = new MentionsTimelineParameters();
var tweets = Timeline.GetMentionsTimeline(mentionsTimelineParameters);

Retweets of Me Timeline

// Get the latest 40 tweets published on the retweets timeline
var tweets = Timeline.GetRetweetsOfMeTimeline(retweetsOfMeTimelineRequestParameter);

// Get more control over the request with a RetweetsOfMeTimelineRequestParameter
var retweetsOfMeTimelineRequestParameter = new RetweetsOfMeTimelineRequestParameter();
var tweets = Timeline.GetRetweetsOfMeTimeline(retweetsOfMeTimelineRequestParameter);