Karthik,

I definitely think it's an interesting value to work with/report to a user
-- the number of retweets a given user has issued. Right now, there's no way
to get that info without manually counting them from the user_timeline for a
user. user_timeline typically goes back around 3200 tweets (+/- some
amount), so for users with less than 3200 tweets you could calculate the
total number of retweets pretty easily. Otherwise, you could just provide
the # of RTs in the period of time from point 0 to -1 of the entire
user_timeline.

Taylor

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Nik Fletcher <nik.fletc...@gmail.com>wrote:

> IIRC Matt / Taylor have said that Twitter search typically only keeps
> 7 days worth of data for searching, so you can't go any further back
> than that at the moment.
>
> Cheers
>
> -N
>
> On Sep 24, 8:14 am, Karthik K <karthikkato...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Is there any way to get the Retweet count per user? i.e., number of
> tweets
> > of a particular user that are Retweeted? Search api with 'RT @username'
> > gives the retweets but again its a only a few days of data.
> >
> > Thanks
>
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