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How do I count retweets? |
Tweets in the REST and Streaming APIs contain a field called retweet_count that provides the number of times that tweet has been retweeted. You can obtain the retweet count for any arbitrary tweet by using GET statuses/show/:id.
You can count retweets as they happen by using a The Streaming APIs.... |
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How do I count favorites? |
Favorite counts aren't available as part of tweet objects in the REST, Streaming or Search APIs at this time. User streams and Site streams both stream events when an authenticated user favorites tweets or has their tweets favorited. Using these authenticated streaming APIs, you can count... |
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I don't want to require users to authenticate but 150 requests per hour is not enough for my app, what should I do? |
Rethink not wanting to require authentication. It's the primary means to grow your application's capabilities. We recommend requiring authentication to make use of potentially 350 requests per hour per access token/user. Consider also investigating whether the Streaming API's follow filter... |
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How do password resets effect application authorization? |
When using OAuth, application connectivity and permissions do not change when a user resets their password on twitter.com. The relationship between Twitter, a user, and a third-party application do not involve a username and password combination. When a Twitter user changes their password, we'll... |
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Site streams |
Overview
Endpoint
Protected data
Connecting
Limits
Best Practices
Be familiar with User Streams
Modifying streams
Applying for access
Overview
Site Streams allows services, such as web sites or mobile push services, to receive real-time updates for a large number of users... |
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User streams |
Overview
Endpoint
Connections
User streams messages
Data from accounts the user follows
Replies
Direct messages
Best practices
User streams and the REST API
Filtering Tweets for display
Overview
User Streams provide a stream of data and events specific to the... |
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How do I keep from running into the rate limit? |
Caching. We recommend that you cache API responses in your application or on your site if you expect high-volume usage. For example, don't try to call the Twitter API on every page load of your hugely popular website. Instead, call our API once a minute and save the response to your local server,... |
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What's the difference between User Streams and Site Streams? |
User streams provides a way for a single user to be streamed the equivalent of their home timeline (the tweets authored by the users they follow) and mentions timeline (the tweets authored by users @mentioning that user). It also offers the ability to be streamed DMs received by the user when... |
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How do I use the Twitter platform? |
Twitter offers a platform with a number of different ways to interact with it.
Web Intents, Tweet Button and Follow Button is the simplest way to bring basic Twitter functionality to your site. It provides features like the ability to tweet, retweet, or follow using basic HTML and Javascript. You... |
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I keep hitting the rate limit. How do I get more requests per hour? |
REST & Search API Whitelisting is not provided. Resourceful use of more efficient REST API requests, authentication, and Streaming APIs will allow you to build your integration successfully without requiring whitelisting. Learn more about rate limits or see the rate limiting FAQ for more... |
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Tweet Entities |
See also Entities from the Field Guide.
Why Tweet Entities?
Tweet text can potentially mention other users or lists, but also contain URLs, media, hashtags... Instead of parsing the text yourself to try to extract those entities, you can use the entities attribute that contains this parsed... |