Hi Tom, Thanks for the prompt reply, I just wanted to clarify, or maybe I have completely misunderstood you, so are you suggesting that I first call statuses_retweets on the original tweet, and then for each returned tweet, get the user information and find the users followers? What if a person is following multiple people who retweeted the orignal tweet? For example, if person A tweets something, and the tweet is retweeted by person B and C, finally person D retweets person B's retweet. How would we determine if person D's retweet is a retweet of person B's retweet, using just the statuses_followers api function call?
Thanks again Mang-Git On Aug 10, 9:28 pm, Tom van der Woerdt <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/10/10 9:17 PM, manggit wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > I am currently developing an app for a open source project. I would > > like to first obtain all direct child retweets of a given tweet, and > > then I would like to find all retweets of each of the child retweets, > > so on and so forth, until i reach the end of the retweet chain. > > However given the new style retweets, the api function call returns > > all retweets of a given tweet, including retweets of retweets, as > > retweets of the original tweet. Therefore I am unable to follow the > > progression of a tweet and gather information on whether a retweet is > > a retweet of the original tweet, or if the retweet is of a retweet. > > > Is there anyway to obtain this information using the status_retweet > > api function call, or any clever combination of any of the api > > functions? > > > Any support will be greatly appreciated > > > Thanks > > Mang-Git > > No and yes. > > No: if there's no specific API for it, then there's no easy way. > Yes: You can build a follower-tree (A follows B, B follows C, C follows > D, etc) from the original tweep, but that may take a lot of time > depending on the amount of retweets, and should probably only be used > for research purposes. > > Tom
