Yeah I'm using BackType's API for the same reasons you mentioned above, but primarily because of the how they resolve shortened URLs
On Nov 25, 6:57 am, Ben Richardson <ben.mark.richard...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to search the API for a specific URL (non-shortened) but am > getting different results on how many times the URL has been tweeted. > The URL I'm using for this example > ishttp://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > > http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://groups.googl... > Shows a count of > 42http://search.twitter.com/search?q=http://groups.google.com/group/twi... > doesn't give me any > resultshttp://www.backtype.com/page/groups.google.com/group/twitter-developm... > shows 151 tweets > > It looks like backtype does a better job of the shortened links, but > from my testing the twitter api will find the results from the > shortened URL's *sometimes*. > > I've also found that backtype can return more results than the twitter > api. For example: > > http://search.twitter.com/search?q=http://37signals.com/rework/gives > me about 30 tweets going back about a > week.http://www.backtype.com/page/37signals.com/rework/conversationsgives > me 3,836 tweets going back much further. > > So I guess I'm asking if it's possible that backtype is providing a > much better search than twitter, or I'm doing something wrong. It > seems like backtype is somehow grabbing every tweet - is that even > possible? It just doesn't seem right that they can be offering a > better search results of twitters data than twitter can (they also > seem to do a better job on shortened URL's than Google which returns > the same results as twitter). -- 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
