both of those are samples -- the streaming API is a sample and the search API does not return all tweets (not all tweets are indexed by search). these are the best two options for getting a sample of all the retweets, unfortunately.
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:11 AM, TimeSnag <wmulli...@me.com> wrote: > Thanks for the advice. I switched over to streaming and am getting > about 25-30 tweets/sec that contain 'rt'. > > Based on main website search, I estimate there are about 45-50 tweets/ > sec that contain 'rt'. > > So, I am only getting about 50% of the actual tweets. If I applied > for the retweet streaming api, would that give me a higher percentage > of the retweets? Or is there another way to increase that percentage? > > Thanks for your help. > > -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
