Yes, back when they were using an RDBMS they said that once they had moved over fully to Cassandra, the 3,200 limit was going to be lifted. Someone I know that

Yes, back when they were using an RDBMS they said that once they had moved over fully to Cassandra, the 3,200 limit was going to be lifted. Someone I know that works at Twitter now was always going on about Twitter archiving and had written Python scripts for backing tweets up... So there might be some hope. Keep on banging on at Twitter about it as users. It is your data, so demand it back from Twitter!