The best way to do this is to take a higher level of Streaming API access, then compute and persist the results on your end. For example, if you take a feed of all Retweets, or the full Firehose, you can perform retweet calculations for all public users. With track, you could track mentions of a subset of users, or with the firehose, all public mentions of all users.
-John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:15 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/score shows 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 >
