The mentions timeline via the REST API requires authentication as you noticed. While you can use the search API for this, your results will be limited by the tweets that enter the Search API's archive (more about what you won't find in the Search API: http://support.twitter.com/articles/66018-my-tweets-or-hashtags-are-missing-from-search).
You may want to check out the "follow" variation of our Streaming API: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api_methods#follow Taylor On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 11:26 PM, @evanmrose <evanmr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have a script that was happily grabbing all of the @ mentions for certain > twitter handles ('http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%40) as per > http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method:-search > > I just joined the group but as of the past several days, the @mentions have > completely been obliterated. I tried directly from the URL ( > http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%40brassmonkeynyc) for several > different handles and have received no return information. I have read the > documentation and understand that the new GET statuses/mentions runs off of > the authenticated user. Is there any way to get all of the @mentions for > just a certain handle without requiring authentication or has this > functionality been deprecated? If there is a way and it is not what I posted > in the first line of this email, can someone point me in the right > direction? Any help would be much appreciated. > > Thanks! > > -Evan >
