Jim, Use the track feature in the streaming api. It's designed just for this sort of application. I think you'll have to track on "act", then post-process to filter further. You'll get all the retweets where the original text contains act.
-John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Sep 20, 10:37 am, Jim Gilliam <j...@gilliam.com> wrote: > Right now, retweets show up in the search API, but with the new retweet > system, it appears all retweets will be yanked from the search API, and > there will be no way to get all retweets that match a particular keyword. > > This is a problem for myhttp://act.lyapplication. It's Twitter > petitions, and one core piece of functionality is that people can sign the > petition simply by retweeting. There's no need to go to the act.ly site, so > it works easily from mobile, etc. To get these tweets, I hit the search > API every minute or so and pull back anything that matches "act.ly" and then > add them to the appropriate petition. > > I need some API method to find out all the retweets that match "act.ly" > Pretty please! Don't make me start a petition. :) > > Jim Gilliamhttp://twitter.com/jgilliam
