Jan 19th BackType API: Now With More Tweets
Following the introduction of tweets into our real-time search results and the new widget for BackTweets, we’ve extended the BackType API to include more Twitter data. Now you can:
Get tweets that link to a page
Give us the URL; we give you all the tweets that have linked to it whether the links were shortened or not. You’ll be able to retrieve tweets that are months old. The results will follow BackTweets, and are also used for the BackType Connect WordPress plugin.
Get (filtered) tweets that link to a page
This call is the same as the one above, but it filters tweets linking to a URL for quality — perfect if you’d like to display tweets in your application, skipping all the tweets that only contain the page title, etc. This is used for our BackTweets widget.
Get the number of times a page has been tweeted
This can be used to determine the number of tweets a page has received. It’s used to power our Tweetcount widget and works very well.
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