Excactly, my main point, too. The problem is I want to track how tweets 'develop' over time. This means I would need to pull the status/retweets every minute or so for every tweet I am tracking. There is a 150 api call limit currently... without whitelisting I will be doomed.
I was hoping that the 'retweeted to me' timeline would include a 'count' field for each retweet. I could then have checked that timeline every minute (and pull the info for the last 50 retweets to me let's say). This would just have consumed 1 request each minute for example... not 1 request per tweet tracked per minute, which... could be a lot. Any ideas? Otherwise: how can I get the app groovytweets whitelisted? Thanx Sven On Sep 18, 3:21 pm, Nick Arnett <nick.arn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Marcel Molina <mar...@twitter.com> wrote: > > > Asking developers to collapse retweets in timelines is onerous, > > complicated and confusing. We're not going to do it that way. We are > > going to add a resource that gives you all retweets for a given tweet. > > In timelines you will get only the first retweet. You can then request > > all retweets for that tweet at any time to get up to 100 retweets that > > have been created for it. > > Will timelines show if additional retweets exist for each tweet? Otherwise, > won't we have to make the request for every tweet to find out if there are > others? > > Nick
