Hey Sachin - We just released an API call that tells some of the data you're looking for: http://api.infochimps.com/describe/soc/net/tw/influence
These are all actionable metrics, no raw data for # of mentions or RTs. It spans a user's entire Twitter timeline. To gather the stats, we've scraping all of Twitter since 2006. Let me know if that helps you at all. Thanks, Jesse Infochimps API Rancher On Jul 20, 10:15 am, Sachin <sachinmo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Using the GET statuses/mentions request I can return all the @mentions > and RT's for the authenticating user. The API documentation says that > no authentication is required, but since there is no user ID parameter > I can see that it does in fact require authentication (reading the > forums have confirmed this I think). > > Does anyone know of a way to get the # of mentions and RTs for a user > ID within a timeframe (i.e. last 30 days)? > > Using the Search API I can get some results in json... but it seems to > be only returning the last 8 or so mentions. > > Does anyone know how applications like Klout are getting these stats? > (http://klout.com/uschles/scoreshows 267 mentions and 63 retweets). > I'm sure they are still only accurate within a certain timeframe but > I'm curious as to how they're getting these stats at all without > authentication from the user. > > Any help would be much appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Sachin
