[twitter-dev] Retweet chain
Let us assume: C follows B. B follows A A sends a tweet and B retweets it. C gets the retweet on his timeline and retweets it again. I'm connected to UserStream of A and I receive both the retweets. But not sure how to find the retweet chain How can we know that C retweeted it via B? Is it exposed in any API methods? -- 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-dev] Re: At Symbol (@) in Twitter Search
This is strange. Did you also notice that for Non-English tweets returned from http://twitter.com/#search?q=%40, the user names are decorated with links to their profile pages? Well, Twitter doesn't index symbols like @ # $ ^. If you'd like to gather the tweets containing references to twitter names, you should use the Streaming API to do so, because Search API doesn't treat @ as a keyword. On Oct 8, 3:18 am, Nick t2then...@gmail.com wrote: The at symbol (@) does not seem to work when searching tweets. When the @ symbol is alone (surrounded by nothing or whitespace) in a search, the search returns 0 English results. Sometimes languages that use non-ascii characters seem to be found. However, when the @ is followed by at least 1 alphanumeric character, the query seems to work fine. I found this by searching for @ the diner downtown, and I was getting back 0 results, but at least 1 results should have been returned, because that's what I tweeted. This probably affects searches for mentions too, because you can't just search for @. I've used the web site and the search API:http://twitter.com/#search?q=%40http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%40 Has anyone gotten a query to work with @ standing alone? This there a different way to perform the same search?
[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/friends page count?
yes, each page request counts against the API limit On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Joseph northwest...@gmail.com wrote: Just as aside, does anyone know if each call to a new page counts against the API limit? On Jul 24, 8:08 am, st...@implu.com st...@implu.com wrote: I'm experiencing the same issue with implu. With 14,408 follows, I should go up to page 145. However, the last page of data is 101 and 102 onwards returns nothing. http://twitter.com/statuses/friends/implu.xml?page=102 The following call does seem to return all the friends/ids however. http://twitter.com/friends/ids/implu.xml Any thoughts? On Jul 10, 10:47 am, Karthik Murugan fermis...@gmail.com wrote: It's also possible, that some intermediate pages return empty result set. Try this, http://twitter.com/statuses/followers.json?id=billcrosbypage=124 This profile has 44K followers and some of the intermediate pages return empty result sets. Not sure why, but my obvious guess is that all the followers in this page are suspended. So, empty result set doesn't mean that you are done with the traversal. I've modified my scripts to crawl N number of pages, where N is (number of followers/100). Total number of followers can be retrieved by users/show - Karthik On Jul 6, 11:31 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Duane,Yes, you will get an empty result set if you step off the end: doug-williamss-macbook-pro:~ igudo$ curl -u dougw:PASSWORD http://twitter.com/statuses/followers.xml?count=100page=43; | grep /user | wc -l 100 doug-williamss-macbook-pro:~ igudo$ curl -u dougw:PASSWORD http://twitter.com/statuses/followers.xml?count=100page=44; | grep /user | wc -l 17 doug-williamss-macbook-pro:~ igudo$ curl -u dougw:PASSWORD http://twitter.com/statuses/followers.xml?count=100page=45; | grep /user | wc -l 0 Thanks, Doug -- Do you follow me?http://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.comwrote: Do you ever get an empty response set? I was experimenting with the pagination and I found that if you request page 20 (for example) for someone who only has one page of friends, you simply get the page 1 response set. On Jul 6, 1:09 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: You should either page throughstatuses/friendsuntil you get an empty response set or use statuses/show to get the number of friends expected and intelligently page to the end of the list. Thanks, Doug
[twitter-dev] Re: Matt Sanford, signing off.
Good Luck Matt!! On Jul 18, 2:18 am, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi everybody*, Starting next week I'm not going to be responding to mails on the dev list or working on Google Code issues as part of my daily work. I have been working on the Search and API/Platform teams here at Twitter since the acquisition of Summize a year ago and the time has come for a change. I'm leaving both teams to take on the role of technical lead for the new Twitter internationalization team. Anybody who's gotten me talking about language detection or language-specifics (especially in person) knows this is something I have a personal interest in. The other team member are going to continue to keep an eye on the dev list and the Google Code issues. As always you can email a...@twitter.com directly if you need something. I'll continue working on the Google Code issues assigned to me or in some cases someone will take them over next week. I mostly felt like I should send you all a good bye since you're considered an extension of the API/Platform team. This change should be fully backward compatible so I didn't see the need for 7-days notice. Good night, and good luck; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev * = Who just said Hi, Dr. Nick. out loud? Your cube neighbor thinks you're crazy.
[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/friends page count?
It's also possible, that some intermediate pages return empty result set. Try this, http://twitter.com/statuses/followers.json?id=billcrosbypage=124 This profile has 44K followers and some of the intermediate pages return empty result sets. Not sure why, but my obvious guess is that all the followers in this page are suspended. So, empty result set doesn't mean that you are done with the traversal. I've modified my scripts to crawl N number of pages, where N is (number of followers/100). Total number of followers can be retrieved by users/show - Karthik On Jul 6, 11:31 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Duane,Yes, you will get an empty result set if you step off the end: doug-williamss-macbook-pro:~ igudo$ curl -u dougw:PASSWORD http://twitter.com/statuses/followers.xml?count=100page=43; | grep /user | wc -l 100 doug-williamss-macbook-pro:~ igudo$ curl -u dougw:PASSWORD http://twitter.com/statuses/followers.xml?count=100page=44; | grep /user | wc -l 17 doug-williamss-macbook-pro:~ igudo$ curl -u dougw:PASSWORD http://twitter.com/statuses/followers.xml?count=100page=45; | grep /user | wc -l 0 Thanks, Doug -- Do you follow me?http://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.comwrote: Do you ever get an empty response set? I was experimenting with the pagination and I found that if you request page 20 (for example) for someone who only has one page of friends, you simply get the page 1 response set. On Jul 6, 1:09 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: You should either page through statuses/friends until you get an empty response set or use statuses/show to get the number of friends expected and intelligently page to the end of the list. Thanks, Doug
[twitter-dev] Re: Include $ as a searchable character
No, they show status updates from unrelated profiles too. I guess, they are indexing updates containing stock names and filtering out posts that don't have a dollar sign before the stock name On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: My SWAG is that they are just parsing their follower/friend stream themselves and highlighting tokens beginning with $. -Chad On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Karthik fermis...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for a similar feature too. I wonder how http://stocktwits.com/streams/all could show statuses containing $ On Feb 21, 10:35 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, that's correct. Add $ as a token modifier, if you will. -Chad On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry I must have been unclear. I don't want the $ by itself, I want it to be a searchable character in conjunction with other strings, so I want to search for $AAPL or $C much like # is with hashtags. FYI, in search engine language this means is that you want words to be tokenized with and without the $ (or other) similar characters. Right now, it sounds like $AAPL is tokenized as AAPL. If I understand correctly, you'd want the search engine to also add the token $AAPL. NIck
