Comments on: BackTweets To Search Links On Twitter

By: Christopher Golda

Christopher Golda — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:45:34 +0000

We have made this available for developers. You can either use the BackTweets API or the BackType Connect API method, though the latter requires a full URL (not just a keyword or domain like with BackTweets)

By: aaronchua

aaronchua — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:33:28 +0000

This is really cool.

I foresee many ideas that can be build on this. Do you guys provide an API for other developers to tap into this search capability?

By: film izle

film izle — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:31:36 +0000

good news i like that

By: thruflo

thruflo — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:27:40 +0000

Gotcha; that makes a lot of sense!

Thanks for quick reply

James.

By: Mike Montano

Mike Montano — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:12:33 +0000

Hey James,

The since_id refers to the Twitter status id of the latest tweet. So this parameter can be used to returns tweets with ids greater than the given id.

By: thruflo

thruflo — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:11:12 +0000

Hi,

Great tool, just working on a python wrapper, wanted to ask how the since_id parameter is parsed. The timestamp in the example on the api page (1300588696) seems to me to resolve to the 20th March 2011::

>>> d = datetime.fromtimestamp(1300588696)
>>> d
datetime.datetime(2011, 3, 20, 2, 38, 16)

Yet some manual testing shows me that 1300588696 does works as a timestamp (I get 88 results for www.yahoo.com). Can you tell me how you generate / parse / compare the timestamp?

Thanks,

James.

By: alex williams

alex williams — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:05:21 +0000

Wow! Tremendous twitter tool here!

By: Adina Levin

Adina Levin — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:48:19 +0000

This is excellent. The next valuable step here is to search for url-shortened links on Facebook, Friendfeed, and other places where people are sharing links.

By: Matt Singley

Matt Singley — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:27:02 +0000

Fantastic! I love it. Thanks for putting this together.

By: Christopher Golda

Christopher Golda — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:37:43 +0000

Thanks!