Is there any fix for this issue? We try to calculate the order and the number of retweets of a person's tweet whom we follow through stream api.
However the retweets and undo-retweets of people whom we don't follow accumulates and increases the RT number. On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:47 PM, John Kalucki <j...@twitter.com> wrote: > Various counts are off on Twitter right now, so you shouldn't be > basing much on counts. > > If you are following the original tweeter, you get the retweet, but > not the deletion. If you are following the retweeter, you get both the > retweet and the deletion notice. This is due to a limitation in the > deletion message format -- there isn't enough information to route the > message in the first case. This affects several streaming use cases, > and is a known issue that we, eventually, hope to fix the next time > we're in that part of the code. > > One workaround, albeit often impractical, is to take the full firehose > and do the correlation on your end. > > -John Kalucki > http://twitter.com/jkalucki > Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. > > > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Furkan Kuru <furkank...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Yes, the original tweet was not deleted. Some of the retweets were deleted. >> >> Actually we noticed this problem when one of the tweet's retweet count >> seemed higher than it was shown in twitter. (both not exceeding 100) >> >> I do not know if twitter acts retweets as a reply-to-user and sends it to >> our stream. >> >> so we do not know wheter some of these retweet messages come from the users >> whom we do not follow. >> >> But so far, our retweet scores were always smaller than it was shown in >> twitter and we thought it was caused because of the fact that we do not >> follow everyone that might retweet the tweet. >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:21 PM, John Kalucki <j...@twitter.com> wrote: >>> >>> Was the original tweet by an account you are following, or was the >>> retweet by an account you are following? Also, I'm assuming that it >>> was the retweet that was deleted, not the original tweet. >>> >>> -John Kalucki >>> http://twitter.com/jkalucki >>> Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Furkan Kuru <furkank...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > I am using the follow param on a "shadow" account. >>> > >>> > >>> > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:14 PM, John Kalucki <j...@twitter.com> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Which endpoint and parameters are you using? Firehose? Sample? Track? >>> >> Etc. >>> >> >>> >> -John Kalucki >>> >> http://twitter.com/jkalucki >>> >> Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:03 AM, Furkan Kuru <furkank...@gmail.com> >>> >> wrote: >>> >> > Hello, >>> >> > >>> >> > In our stream we receive deleted statuses but can not receive undo >>> >> > retweets. >>> >> > >>> >> > Is undoing a retweet message is different than deleting a status? >>> >> > >>> >> > wiki has shown only the deleted status message info: >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > JSON: { "delete": { "status": { "id": 1234, "user_id": 3 } } } >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > -- >>> >> > Furkan Kuru >>> >> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Furkan Kuru >>> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Furkan Kuru >> > -- Furkan Kuru -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
