Why does a Twitter API request for a user's timeline with count=40 return about half the number of results that it should?

Question

Why does

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=erikvold&page=0&count=40

return approximately 15 results?

Should it not return 40 results?

Answer 1

Retweets are not included by default.

This method will not include retweets in the XML and JSON responses unless the include_rts parameter is set. The RSS and Atom responses will always include retweets as statuses prefixed with RT.

Source

Answer 2

I was reading the documentation for the new API on api.twitter.com and using the old API, twitter.com, and the old API didn't include the include_rts parameter because retweets didn't exist back then.

The old API is basically useless now. I just had to use api.twitter.com and it worked.