# Problem in displaying all older tweets

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-in-displaying-all-older-tweets/178731>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 10, 2009, 10:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-in-displaying-all-older-tweets/178731 "2009-11-10T10:49:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![nilez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@nilez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nilez)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 10:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-in-displaying-all-older-tweets/178731/1 "2009-11-10T10:49:38Z")

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Hi Everyone,

I want to display all the older tweets in my application. I am using  
jquery  
plugin(jquery.tweet.js) for that.  
I am getting only 9 days old tweets. Is it possible to get all the  
older  
tweets. If yes, please help me out.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![nilez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@nilez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nilez)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2009, 10:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-in-displaying-all-older-tweets/178731/2 "2009-11-11T10:17:51Z")

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Although I am not too familiar with that plugin, I am familiar with  
Twitter’s APIs. The Twitter API’s are fairly limited in their ability  
to return historical content. The number of tweets and how far back  
they go, depends on the number of tweets that match your criteria.  
For example, if you were to use their search api for a trending topic,  
chances are you will only receive a sample of content going back a few  
minutes. However, if you try and access keywords that are not used  
often, you will get virtually 100% of the results going back several  
weeks.

Hope that helps.