Thank you both for the reply. I'm looking to get totals for accounts already in existence. If I understand Edward's point correctly, this wouldn't work for me since I would need to create a dataset containing data for the entire lifetime of the account, i.e., I would have to start gathering data when the account is created. I tried to search for mentions of this in this group but came up empty. Edward, could you point me to the mentions you are referring to? Am I understanding your point correctly?
On Nov 15, 6:59 am, Edward Hotchkiss <edw...@edwardhotchkiss.com> wrote: > 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. > > Best, > > -------------- > Edward H. > Hotchkisshttp://www.edwardhotchkiss.com/http://www.twitter.com/edwardhotchkiss/ > -------------- > > 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! > > > -- > > Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc > > API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi > > Issues/Enhancements Tracker:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > > Change your membership to this > > group:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > > > -- > > Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc > > API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi > > Issues/Enhancements Tracker:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > > Change your membership to this > > group:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
