Other than taking the firehose, I don't know how one would keep retweet counts perfectly in sync. Perhaps a statistical model and some sampling via REST will allow you to derate counts with reasonable accuracy?
-John On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Furkan Kuru <furkank...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
