OK OK my test worked locally it seems but not via drone. No idea why - at this point I don’t much care long as they work for me. Now code changes to encode and decode tweets, efficiency be damned - lets just move on. https://dev.twitter.com/docs/working-with-timelines Tweets returned in reverse chronological order - so not optimal for writing to a file. func (tw *twitter) collect(toGet string) (string, error) { var searchResult []anaconda.