Right, but using the Search API doesn't provide a way of filtering out those already processed by the Twitter Replies API. See what I mean?
Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Williams To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:36 AM Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: getting replies to user if user is not following the replying user Jeff, A Search for @replies will return any tweet that contains a reference to the user. The current implementation of replies from the REST API will only return tweets that start with a reference to that user. Thus the result from the search API is the superset of all @replies and public mentions of a user. Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Jeff Bishop <[email protected]> wrote: I am also wanting to insure that I filter those items that I already processed from the Twitter API. I would rather not have duplicates. It is unclear if the Search API will return to me the Twitter ID values of a tweet to ignore already filtered tweets from the Twitter API. Sorry if this is confusing. ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Williams To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:23 AM Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: getting replies to user if user is not following the replying user Jeff, The search API [1] is drop dead simple. Say you have a search for any @reply or mention to @twitterapi [2]. Changing the search URL to include a format (json or atom) will give you a feed that can be parsed programmatically. For example: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%40twitterapi [1] - http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Search+API+Documentation [2] - http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%40twitterapi Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Jeff Bishop <[email protected]> wrote: I would prefer to get them in a feed like the Twitter API provides (like in a Status node). Will these appear in the replies Twitter API call? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chad Etzel" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 8:59 AM Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: getting replies to user if user is not following the replying user I thought that those type of replies would show up under the replies tab anyway (i.e. there doesn't need to be a relationship between two users (in either direction) for a reply to show up in the replies tab). I could be wrong, or maybe something changed... However, if you head to http://search.twitter.com/ and search for @user you will see all mentions of that user from all public accounts. You can grab the resultant search as an RSS/Atom feed if you like. -Chad On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Jeff Bishop <[email protected]> wrote: Hello, Is it possible to track replies sent to a user even though that user is not following that person? If so, how? Jeff
