Twitter user_timeline.json仅显示最新的tweet，即使count = 5

Question

The following PHP code used to work then this morning suddenly the following call

$get_tweets = $connection->get("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=" . $twitter_user_id . "&count=" . $tweets_to_display . "&include_rts=" . $include_rts . "&exclude_replies=" . $exclude_replies);

returns a $get_tweets with only one result even though I set count to 5 and I have many hundreds of tweets! The only reason I see is that the previous tweet was 15 days ago however I want the latest 5 tweets not the latest 5 tweets in less than X days.

The library is the one available at https://github.com/andrewbiggart/latest-tweets-php-o-auth/ by the way.

EDIT:

$include_rts = false

$exclude_replies = false;

Answer 1

It's correctly returning 5 tweets to me, however I noticed it returns only 1 from time to time but it must be a problem on Twitter side.

Probably from time to time they throttle the number of tweets independently of your request. You should in that case ignore updating the cache and use it instead of the returned single tweet.

Answer 2

Twitter user_timeline.json showing only latest tweet even though count = 5

$get_tweets = $connection->get("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=" . $twitter_user_id . "&count=" . $tweets_to_display . "&include_rts=" . $include_rts . "&exclude_replies=" . $exclude_replies);

It's not a problem with Twitter side. Yes, Twitter will return the tweets how much you specified in count & if you didn't specified, it will return 15 tweets.

So, Why Twitter returned only one tweet?

It's because you used some additional parameters along with your request like

1. include_rts and
2. exclude_replies

which returns only few tweets.

Since you didn't provided about whether you enabled retweets and excluded_replies or not, i couldn't clearly point out you where you made the mistake.

But, most likely you're getting few tweets because of omitting Retweets or Replies or Both.