With the "follow" parameter, you should only get "real" replies & retweets. If you need to track all mentions, try the "track" parameter (i.e. track=@user)
Arnaud / @rno <http://twitter.com/rno> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Kumar <kumar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > The streaming api documentation says that mentions, implicit retweets > and implicit replies will NOT be returned. However, it looks like they > are being returned. For our application we do need to keep track of > mentions and the streaming api seems to work fine. Can we rely on it > being present always? Is the documentation dated and need to be > updated? > > Thanks, > Kumar. > > --------- > http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api_methods#follow > > References unmatched are statuses that were: > Mentions (“Hello @user!”) > Implicit retweets (“RT @user Says Helloes” without pressing a retweet > button) > Implicit replies (“@user Hello!”, created without pressing a reply > “swoosh” button to set the in_reply_to field) > > ----------------------- > > -- > 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
