Hi, I think that it is safe to assume that if user B follows C but not D, that he/she will retweet C and not D. However, this is not always 100% accurate. If an user follows both C and D, he/she will have retweeted the first one who retweeted it - the user does not get the second one in the timeline.
Tom Sent from my iPod On 11 aug. 2010, at 08:46, manggit <mang...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <i...@tvdw.eu> 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
