title: Getting only selected fields of user timeline from Twitter API
body: <p>I am getting user's timeline from an iOS app, with a big number of tweets being pulled from the API. I am using the <code>statuses/user_timeline</code> endpoint to get the data, however, as I'm on a mobile device and as I only need the tweet text only, I'd like to filter only the actual text data of the tweets. I've already set <code>include_entities</code> to <code>no</code> and <code>trim_user</code> to <code>true</code>, but even with entities and user data trimmed off, I'm still getting a lot of data that I don't need. Here is a sample tweet that I get from the endpoint:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
  "created_at": "Tue Nov 27 14:13:13 +0000 2012",
  "id": 273429272209801200,
  "id_str": "273429272209801217",
  "text": "you could list #5ThingsIFindAttractive but you can actually find them on Facebook with Social Match on iPhone! http://t.co/zRr1ggbz",
  "source": "web",
  "truncated": false,
  "in_reply_to_status_id": null,
  "in_reply_to_status_id_str": null,
  "in_reply_to_user_id": null,
  "in_reply_to_user_id_str": null,
  "in_reply_to_screen_name": null,
  "user": {
    "id": 62828168,
    "id_str": "62828168"
  },
  "geo": null,
  "coordinates": null,
  "place": {
    "id": "682c5a667856ef42",
    "url": "http://api.twitter.com/1/geo/id/682c5a667856ef42.json",
    "place_type": "country",
    "name": "Turkey",
    "full_name": "Turkey",
    "country_code": "TR",
    "country": "Turkey",
    "bounding_box": {
      "type": "Polygon",
      "coordinates": [
        [
          [
            25.663883,
            35.817497
          ],
          [
            44.822762,
            35.817497
          ],
          [
            44.822762,
            42.109993
          ],
          [
            25.663883,
            42.109993
          ]
        ]
      ]
    },
    "attributes": {}
  },
  "contributors": null,
  "retweet_count": 0,
  "favorited": false,
  "retweeted": false,
  "possibly_sensitive": false
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>}</p>
  
  <p>The only thing I actually need is the <code>text</code> key of the dictionary. The rest is currently useless for my app. I'll be requesting LOTS of tweets like this. How can I send a request to just to pull of the <code>text</code> key of the tweets? Currently, this method is <em>extremely</em> inefficient.</p>