hi lau. check out http://dev.twitter.com/doc - the methods that you need to call are all documented there.
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 2:12 PM, lauthiamkok <lau.thiam...@googlemail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Twitter API and only know that we can pull someone's > Twitter feed from Twitter through RSS feed on that person's Twitter > page/ profile. > > But, how can I pull more information of that person's Twitter page? > For instance, > > 1. His/ Her followers. > 2. Total of his/ her retweet items. > > You can take a look here for what I mean above, > > http://www.qapture.net/ > > There are a couple of interesting things I still cannot figure them > out how they did this website, > > 1. If you compare the particular person's twitter feed on this website > with that person's twitter page, some of the items are pull in qapture > website, but some are not, so I think they must have select certain > items of feed only - how do they do that?? > > 2. If you mouse over an item of feed on qapture website, you can see > other information of that feed item, such as '9 hours ago', '6 > tweet(s)', etc - how do you get that information from? > > Which area of Twitter API that I should look into to achieve the > matters above...? > > Many thanks! > > Lau > -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi