title: Understanding home_timeline statuses limit?
body: <p>According to Twitter's documentation at <a href="https://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/home_timeline" rel="nofollow">https://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/home_timeline</a>, "This method is can only return up to 800 statuses, including retweets."</p>
  
  <p>I understand that you can only retrieve up to 200 statuses per call, but I don't understand the 800 total statuses limit. </p>
  
  <p>Is it a per-app limit of 800 statuses? How do Twitter clients like Twitdroid retrieve all my statuses then?</p>
  
  <p>Are you only able to get 800 statuses over a certain time period? That is, if I make repeated calls to home_timeline today I can only get 800 statuses, but if I get 800 today and then wait until tomorrow to make another call to home_timeline, will it still not work?</p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to retrieve all the statuses on my home_timeline in the last couple months but because of this limit I'm only able to get about 800 of them. How can I understand and work around this limit?</p>