get tweets by particular user using twitter4j java api - twitter

Question

I want to get tweets by particular user by entering its userId.
I can search for a text by:
Query query = new Query("Hi");
QueryResult result;
do {
result = twitter.search(query);
List<Status> tweets = result.getTweets();
for (Status tweet : tweets) {
System.out.println("#" + tweet.getUser().getScreenName() +
" - " + tweet.getText());
}
} while ((query = result.nextQuery()) != null);
but how can I search for the tweets by entering particular userId, is there any direct method or I have to apply logic ?
I am trying:
Status status = twitter.showStatus(id);
if (status != null){
System.out.println("#" + status.getUser().getScreenName()
+ " - " + status.getText());}
where id is userId, but by doing this, I am getting the error:
Failed to search tweets: 404:The URI requested is invalid or the
resource requested, such as a user, does not exists. Also returned
when the requested format is not supported by the requested method.
message - No status found with that ID. code - 144
Can anyone please help me with this?

Answer 1

With the Twitter API you can get up to ~3200 tweets from an user, to do this you can get the time line from an specific user, see those questions
Get tweets of a public twitter profile
Twitter4J: Get all statuses from Twitter account
By the way, you are getting that error because you are using twitter.showStatus(id); with an userid, you need to call twitter.showUser(id) and you won't get that error