Jeff, A Search for @replies will return any tweet that contains a reference to the user. The current implementation of replies from the REST API will only return tweets that start with a reference to that user. Thus the result from the search API is the superset of all @replies and public mentions of a user.
Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Jeff Bishop <jeff.bis...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am also wanting to insure that I filter those items that I already > processed from the Twitter API. I would rather not have duplicates. It is > unclear if the Search API will return to me the Twitter ID values of a tweet > to ignore already filtered tweets from the Twitter API. Sorry if this is > confusing. > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Doug Williams <d...@twitter.com> > *To:* twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:23 AM > *Subject:* [twitter-dev] Re: getting replies to user if user is not > following the replying user > > Jeff, > The search API [1] is drop dead simple. Say you have a search for any > @reply or mention to @twitterapi [2]. Changing the search URL to include a > format (json or atom) will give you a feed that can be parsed > programmatically. For example: > > http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%40twitterapi > > [1] - http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Search+API+Documentation > [2] - http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%40twitterapi > > Doug Williams > Twitter API Support > http://twitter.com/dougw > > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Jeff Bishop <jeff.bis...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> I would prefer to get them in a feed like the Twitter API provides (like >> in a Status node). Will these appear in the replies Twitter API call? >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chad Etzel" <jazzyc...@gmail.com> >> To: <twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 8:59 AM >> Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: getting replies to user if user is not >> following the replying user >> >> >> >> >> I thought that those type of replies would show up under the replies >> tab anyway (i.e. there doesn't need to be a relationship between two >> users (in either direction) for a reply to show up in the replies >> tab). I could be wrong, or maybe something changed... >> >> However, if you head to http://search.twitter.com/ and search for >> @user you will see all mentions of that user from all public accounts. >> You can grab the resultant search as an RSS/Atom feed if you like. >> >> -Chad >> >> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Jeff Bishop <jeff.bis...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Is it possible to track replies sent to a user even though that user is >>> not >>> following that person? If so, how? >>> >>> Jeff >>> >>> >> >
