Re: [twitter-dev] Absolute totals for mentions and retweets_of_me

2010-11-15 Thread Taylor Singletary
Most elements of the Twitter API do not provide the level of granularity
that you're looking for -- only for the most recent / infrequently used
accounts will you ever be able to determine something like total mentions
or total retweets of me -- simply by accessing those API methods and
getting all possible results and counting them...

But due to the way data is cached in the Twitter ecosystem, there's no way
to directly query us to find out these numbers for a given user at this
time.

Taylor

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Andres Buritica 
andres.buritic...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi. I would appreaciate anyone who would be able to tell me if it's
 possible to get the total number of mentions and/or total number of
 tweets retweeted by others for the lifetime of an account. The status/
 mentions and statuses/retweets_of_me API calls only seem to go back
 only so far. Thanks!

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Re: [twitter-dev] Absolute totals for mentions and retweets_of_me

2010-11-15 Thread Edward Hotchkiss
Someone on the list mentioned creating that level of granularity by  
creating datasets and queries that are essentially API calls ... of  
your own. If it's not covered in a popular lib then the method does  
not exist.


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On Nov 15, 2010, at 9:52 AM, Taylor Singletary wrote:

Most elements of the Twitter API do not provide the level of  
granularity that you're looking for -- only for the most recent /  
infrequently used accounts will you ever be able to determine  
something like total mentions or total retweets of me -- simply  
by accessing those API methods and getting all possible results and  
counting them...


But due to the way data is cached in the Twitter ecosystem, there's  
no way to directly query us to find out these numbers for a given  
user at this time.


Taylor

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Andres Buritica andres.buritic...@gmail.com 
 wrote:

Hi. I would appreaciate anyone who would be able to tell me if it's
possible to get the total number of mentions and/or total number of
tweets retweeted by others for the lifetime of an account. The status/
mentions and statuses/retweets_of_me API calls only seem to go back
only so far. Thanks!

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