Hi Doug, We don't have a search result counting API available at this time. One approach would be to prepare ahead of time and use the Streaming API's track filter on the URL you're interested in, keeping the stream open and counting tweets featuring your URL as it spreads on Twitter. http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api_methods#track
Taylor @episod <http://twitter.com/episod> - Taylor Singletary - Twitter Developer Advocate On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:13 AM, doug <douglas.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Facebook API has a FQL query that allows one to retrieve the > number of "Likes" or "Shares" a particular URL got. > > I can certainly find a way to use the Twitter Search API to retrieve > the raw statuses that mention a particular URL... but it seems like > overkill when all I would like is the count... the number of statuses > that mention that URL. > > Is there a way to simply retrieve _just_ the count of URL mentions? > > Thanks, Doug > > > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
