Actually what I meant, Say I did a search on URL at backtweets.com and gave me 256 results.
But when I search the same url via their API using a program it gives 26 results ... That is why I am being confused on that.. Am I not in correct track or their API gives lesser output than their own onsite search ... B. Parse On Apr 18, 1:44 am, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > The number of results you get is going to depend entirely on the url/users > and does not indicate which services is better. > > > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:17, ParsePlz <parseplz.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have already tried with backtweets API, it works but give lesser > > results than on-site search... > > > On Apr 16, 12:45 am, ParsePlz <parseplz.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > could someone please post an example API request, I mean the url as > > > input, which api request to be used. > > > > I tried withhttp://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=usingtinyURL, > > > bitly even plain url, then with OR operator, but I dont get much as > > > (actually very few) backtweet results. > > > > What do you suggest me to use? > > > > How backtweers operate ?? > > > > Thanks and Best Regards > > > > B. Parse > > > > On Apr 10, 4:15 am, Chris Thomson <chri...@chris24.ca> wrote: > > > > > There's also the BackTweets API.http://backtweets.com/api > > > > > -Chris Thomson > > > > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:27 AM, jstrellner <jstrell...@urltrends.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi Nick, > > > > > > Yes, we can help with this. We have an API that is nearly complete > > > > > that will allow you to provide a URL and get all of the tweets that > > > > > contained a link to the provided URL, regardless of which URL > > > > > shortener that was used. > > > > > > -Joel > > > > > > On Apr 5, 12:02 pm, Nick Arnett <nick.arn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Abraham Williams < > > 4bra...@gmail.com> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Just pretend the URL is text and search for that text using the > > default > > > > > > > Search API call. > > > > > > > But if you want meaningful results, you'll want to shorten the URL > > with > > > > > the > > > > > > popular shorteners (tinyurl, bitly, etc.) and search on the > > shortened > > > > > > versions. > > > > > > > Or you might be able to accomplish what you're seeking by using > > Twiturly. > > > > > > > Nick > > -- > Abraham Williams |http://the.hackerconundrum.com > Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham > Web608 | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org > This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. > Sent from Madison, Wisconsin, United States
