so i built a program using the following example from http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/quick-tutorial-twitter-processing after importing twitter4j into my processing program:

1. Twitter myTwitter;
   
   void setup() {
    myTwitter = new Twitter("yourTwitterUserName", "yourTwitterPassword");
    try {
   
    Query query = new Query("sandwich");
    query.setRpp(100);
    QueryResult result = myTwitter.search(query);
   
    ArrayList tweets = (ArrayList) result.getTweets();
   
    for (int i = 0; i < tweets.size(); i++) {
    Tweet t = (Tweet) tweets.get(i);
    String user = t.getFromUser();
    String msg = t.getText();
    Date d = t.getCreatedAt();
    println("Tweet by " + user + " at " + d + ": " + msg);
    };
   
    }
    catch (TwitterException te) {
    println("Couldn't connect: " + te);
    };
   };
   
   void draw() {
   
   };
   

you see where the query phrase is "sandwich"? if i run the code as is, i get 100 results with the word "sandwich" in them. works fine. but i really wanted to manipulate the results of my own tweets. so i changed "sandwich" to my username. worked great for the longest time (weeks). i was able to pull my own tweets and the filter and manipulate the results. loaded it up today (to demo) and now it no longer works (figures, right?). maybe there is some changes on how twitter search which no longer allows my to query myself (or any user name)....don't know why it won't work anymore. and i haven't changed a thing since i last ran it a week ago.

 so any thoughts on how i tweak the code so i can retrieve tweets only by specfic users? i'm a bit of a novice, learning as i go, so please bear with me. much thanks,
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