I am also wanting to insure that I filter those items that I already processed 
from the Twitter API.  I would rather not have duplicates.  It is unclear if 
the Search API will return to me the Twitter ID values of a tweet to ignore 
already filtered tweets from the Twitter API.  Sorry if this is confusing.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Doug Williams 
  To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:23 AM
  Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: getting replies to user if user is not following 
the replying user


  Jeff,
  The search API [1] is drop dead simple. Say you have a search for any @reply 
or mention to @twitterapi [2]. Changing the search URL to include a format 
(json or atom) will give you a feed that can be parsed programmatically. For 
example:

  http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%40twitterapi

  [1] - http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Search+API+Documentation
  [2] - http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%40twitterapi

  Doug Williams
  Twitter API Support
  http://twitter.com/dougw



  On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Jeff Bishop <jeff.bis...@gmail.com> wrote:


    I would prefer to get them in a feed like the Twitter API provides (like in 
a Status node).  Will these appear in the replies Twitter API call?

    ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chad Etzel" <jazzyc...@gmail.com>
    To: <twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com>
    Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 8:59 AM
    Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: getting replies to user if user is not following 
the replying user




    I thought that those type of replies would show up under the replies
    tab anyway (i.e. there doesn't need to be a relationship between two
    users (in either direction) for a reply to show up in the replies
    tab).  I could be wrong, or maybe something changed...

    However, if you head to http://search.twitter.com/ and search for
    @user you will see all mentions of that user from all public accounts.
    You can grab the resultant search as an RSS/Atom feed if you like.

    -Chad

    On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Jeff Bishop <jeff.bis...@gmail.com> wrote:

      Hello,

      Is it possible to track replies sent to a user even though that user is 
not
      following that person? If so, how?

      Jeff





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