How to get around the Twitter 3200 status limit?

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Find ALL tweets from a user (not just the first 3,200)

Im working on an app the requires access to ALL of a users statuses. Problem is, twitter only allows for 3200 of the most recent statuses to get retrieved.

I know that many other web services are able to get ALL of your tweets, how can I get around this issue?

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/things-every-developer-should-know

A similar question was asked before, Find ALL tweets from a user (not just the first 3,200) and the accepted answer was to "start saving them before the user's tweet count hits 3200". This isn't an option though, as many users already have well over 3200 tweets.

Ive been reading a lot on the issue and I dont see any way around it, however there obviously is if sites like the ones mentioned here http://blog.tweetsmarter.com/twitter-search/10-ways-and-20-features-for-searching-old-tweets/ can do it.

Any ideas?

Twitter have specifically put this limit in place to prevent abuse, and you're asking how to circumvent it? — Oliver Charlesworth, May 20 '12 at 23:10
I can only assume that they've either paid Twitter for access all Tweets, or they have a database of their own collected off the Firehose (also paid for). — , May 20 '12 at 23:13
Yes Oli. Its ridiculous that we can only get some tweets when they are all there for the picking. — r2DoesInc, May 20 '12 at 23:16
that question was referenced in mine if you read it. The answer given was basically, just have them start using the app before they get to 3200. Not at all an acceptable answer. — r2DoesInc, May 20 '12 at 23:21
@r2DoesInc: It may not be "acceptable" to you, but it is probably the right answer. — Oliver Charlesworth, May 20 '12 at 23:28
its not an answer to my question. or to the question the other guy asked. — r2DoesInc, May 20 '12 at 23:29
The accepted answer says "There's currently no way to get more than that through any Twitter API"; that sounds like an answer to both questions. — Oliver Charlesworth, May 20 '12 at 23:30
This tool may help: https://github.com/pauldotknopf/twitter-dump — Paul Knopf, Jan 06 '20 at 13:00

How to get around the Twitter 3200 status limit?

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