Without being a friend of the Redditor, is it possible to obtain any information on the followers they have? Whether that be the followers themselves or the number followers they have.
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Is there a way to get tweets of users who i am following using Account Activity API?
Or there is any way to get tweets of specific users?
Yes, absolutely! If your account is subscribed to the AA API then you should see Tweets mentioning you on the webhook. If you are interested in Tweets from specific users then use the timelines API.
I am looking to get the count of how many users were mentioned by a particular user in its tweets for a specific period of time.
I am looking to achieve it in Twitter API 1.1
For example, an arbitrary user #user1 mentioned 20 users in his tweets since last 10 days.
Can we get the total Retweet_Count per an account OR per Screenname like followers count at user level as followers count is a property associated with user information, Where as Retweet_Count is a field associated with each individual Tweet.
I'm thinking I need to get all the tweets of a user then add the filed Retweet_Count in each & every tweet a user received. Here the problem is the total number of tweets getting using twitter rest api are limited to last 200 tweets (only 2 weeks old tweets in these 200).
We cannot find historical tweets with Streaming API, If we store all the real time tweets using streaming api in our local database then with the use of id of each tweet record in our local data base we need to call twitter rest api call(GET statuses/show/:id) in a loop, then add all the Retweet_Count value in this loop. But due to this the number of restapi calls are increasing to get the total Retweet_Count.
Please suggest me for the better approach.
No, that's not at all possible .
Since the retweet_count associates with each tweet, you need to get all the tweets first.
The reason why i said it's impossible is because if a user has more than 3200 tweets, then you can't get the exact retweet_count as twitter offers only 3200 most recent tweets of a user through GET statuses/user_timeline.
GET statuses/user_timeline method can only return up to 3,200 of a
user’s most recent Tweets. Native retweets of other statuses by the
user is included in this total, regardless of whether include_rts is
set to false when requesting this resource.
One more thing. Some Tweets retweent_count may vary time to time. I mean some may undo retweet & some may retweet old tweet or past week tweet. So, you need to retrieve all the tweets again and again to update-to-date with exact retweet_count. By doing this, there are more chances that you will fall in Twitter's Rate Limit.
I am building a demo Twitter app. I have fetched the search results and timeline tweets. Is there any way to get the list of people I am following and my followers? And, can my messages be fetched too?
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/users/lookup
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/users/show
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/friends/ids
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/followers/ids
Check this links to know the parameters to get the list of followers and know the REST API link for retrieve the friends and followers.
I am able to extract tweets, and the submitter's user details using the streaming API, but I also need the list of followers and friends of users posting these tweets.
I am aware that Twitter search API has the friends/ids and followers/ids functions through which one can get the public followers and friends list one user at a time.
But, my data collection requires getting this information for all the users whose tweets I have collected, around 20,000+ users. This is quite exhaustive given the high number of users, and the limitation of one user per call. Moreover, I need to refresh this list for each of these 20,000+ users preferably once a day to observe changes in their friends and followers (if any).
IS there any I can achieve this using the Twitter Streaming API or any other method. Or I have to apply for the Twitter commercial data license?
Thanks!!!
20,000 is way beyond the limits of any normal Twitter API method. I think your going to have to apply for a commercial license to go that high. The streaming API, I believe, tracks 400 keywords and 5000 users max. Your right in that the REST twitter API method only allows you to track one user or a list of ID's. You can take a look at the Twitter Counter API which mines additional info including information about followers, etc. But again, 20,000 I'm sure would be above the limits. Communicate with Twitter, Gnip and, and the Twitter Counter service to see what they can do for you.
Twitter Counter API:
http://twittercounter.com/pages/api?ref=footer