That is an issue you will have to talk to backtweets about.

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 04:05, ParsePlz <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Actually what I meant,
>
> Say I did a search on URL at backtweets.com and gave me 256 results.
>
> But when I search the same url via their API using a program it gives
> 26 results ...
>
> That is why I am being confused on that..
>
> Am I not in correct track or their API gives lesser output than their
> own onsite search ...
>
> B. Parse
> On Apr 18, 1:44 am, Abraham Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The number of results you get is going to depend entirely on the
> url/users
> > and does not indicate which services is better.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:17, ParsePlz <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > I have already tried with backtweets API, it works but give lesser
> > > results than on-site search...
> >
> > > On Apr 16, 12:45 am, ParsePlz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> >
> > > > could someone please post an example API request, I mean the url as
> > > > input, which api request to be used.
> >
> > > > I tried withhttp://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=usingtinyURL,
> > > > bitly even plain url, then with OR operator, but I dont get much as
> > > > (actually very few) backtweet results.
> >
> > > > What do you suggest me to use?
> >
> > > > How backtweers operate ??
> >
> > > > Thanks and Best Regards
> >
> > > > B. Parse
> >
> > > > On Apr 10, 4:15 am, Chris Thomson <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > > > There's also the BackTweets API.http://backtweets.com/api
> >
> > > > > -Chris Thomson
> >
> > > > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:27 AM, jstrellner <
> [email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > > > > Hi Nick,
> >
> > > > > > Yes, we can help with this. We have an API that is nearly
> complete
> > > > > > that will allow you to provide a URL and get all of the tweets
> that
> > > > > > contained a link to the provided URL, regardless of which URL
> > > > > > shortener that was used.
> >
> > > > > > -Joel
> >
> > > > > > On Apr 5, 12:02 pm, Nick Arnett <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Abraham Williams <
> > > [email protected]>
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > > Just pretend the URL is text and search for that text using
> the
> > > default
> > > > > > > > Search API call.
> >
> > > > > > > But if you want meaningful results, you'll want to shorten the
> URL
> > > with
> > > > > > the
> > > > > > > popular shorteners (tinyurl, bitly, etc.) and search on the
> > > shortened
> > > > > > > versions.
> >
> > > > > > > Or you might be able to accomplish what you're seeking by using
> > > Twiturly.
> >
> > > > > > > Nick
> >
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