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The "Your tweets retweeted" page on Twitter shows which of your tweets have been retweeted, but usually it says something like "retweeted by @madeuptwitteraccount and others" is there any way to find out (a) how many people have retweeted a tweet and (b) what their twitter IDs are?

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The list of users that have retweeted your tweet is listed below the text you mention.

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If you hover over each of the avatars it displays the users name

EDIT

Twitter will always display the " and others" regardless of the number of retweets a tweet has received.

To demonstrate this, you can check the number of retweets made by using the API.

http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/{TweetID}/retweeted_by.xml

Replace {tweetId} with the tweet you want to inspect. If you enter this in a web browser and then view source. It will give you all the users that retweeted your tweet.

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I'm afraid that's not showing everyone - I have "retweeted by @foo and others" with only @foo's picture below. – Christi Apr 15 '11 at 12:44
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@Christi: It will always say " and others" regardless of the number of people that have retweeted your tweet – Barry Apr 15 '11 at 13:05
@Barry do you have a source for that? It seems like odd behaviour. – Christi Apr 15 '11 at 13:08
@Christi: I have updated my answer. I can't find anything in black and white from Twitter that states this but as mentioned you can confirm this behaviour by using the API – Barry Apr 15 '11 at 13:14
how do I know wich is the TweetID? – user10503 Apr 27 '11 at 18:24
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google realtime allows you to see it. go to google realtime and enter "@yourUserName" and search.

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Recently Twitter has gone a lot of changes and with the new Twitter website this is not possible. However, I use Timeline Tweets which has a feature to view all your tweets retweeted.

I hope this helps.

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