The application programming interface that allows REST or real-time streaming interaction with Twitter data for read/write purposes

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Count of Twitter hashtags in a 24-hour period?

How do I get a count of the number of times a Twitter hashtag is used or mentioned in a 24-hour period? An example use is the Livestrong/BreakCancer world record attempt. I'd like to tally the number ...
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Why is Twitter not shortening my URL; which share functionality should I use?

I am currently using the share functionality of Twitter, but for some reason it's not shortening my URL. Why? And how can I fix this? For example, if you click the link below you will see that my URL ...
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how to get Tweetbox without using deprecated @Anywhere

I want to include a Twitter Tweetbox on my site so users can post a Tweet from my site. I want to see a textarea with a 'Tweet' button, and the textarea should be prepopulated with some suggested ...
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how can i connect to twitter api via proxy? [closed]

i am starter and i need to connect twitter api via proxy. and twitt : Hello World? my web site is dot net. C# . and i want to twit events of my site to twitter via twitter api. please give me an ...
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How can I get all my Twitter related activity in counts?

How can I get all my Twitter related activity in counts? Example: my tweet count is 50; my favorite is 10. I need counts of following: mentions, favorites, retweets, liststatus, hometimeline, direct ...
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How to manage who I'm following on Twitter

Currently I'm following almost 2k users on Twitter, I wish to review my followings and remove some of them, but it's very time consuming to check all of those one by one! Basically I need to unfollow ...
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How can I post tweet or status to particular person home time line using twitter api? [closed]

How can I post tweet to particular person home time line in twitter. How can I do this in twitter api call?
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Getting insights data from LinkedIn and Twitter

Is there any way to get insights data from Twitter and LinkedIn company/brand pages as Facebook provides? Data like: negative feedback; comment/wall posts; likes, shares, follows, re-tweets etc ...
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Does the Twitter-API support the ability to search your own home timeline?

A few months ago, Erik Michaels-Ober asked for: Search APIs that can be scoped to a particular user's timeline. For example, I frequently want to search only the Tweets that appeared within my ...
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Retrieve old hashtagged tweets on Twitter from various users

I need to retrieve an archive or a list of tweets up to a year old, that were posted by various users, and included specific hashtags. A long search on Google created the notion this is impossible ...
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Limit Twitter Search to a particular list

I'd like to specify a Twitter list to search for a specified hash tag. Searching by a hash tag is easy: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23geocamsu will search all of Twitter for the #geocamsu ...
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Find tweets by app

I need to find all tweets made by a defined app. I discovered the "source" search operator that allows to do that. For example, here is the URL of the search to find all tweets made with Tweetbot ...
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Twitter profiler?

My Twitter is way too busy. I want to know who I can unfollow to reduce the highest amount of messages. The messages are so spread apart it's hard to tell. There are also retweets. Is there an app ...
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How does Brizzly retrieve tweets in spite of a Twitter firewall block?

Brizzly is a Twitter client. Though not the best of all the existing clients, what I see as the best in this app is that one can use it at work even if Twitter is blocked. I fail to understand how ...
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Does Twitter offer a “Tweet box api” that can be installed on any blogs and used by Twitter users?

I was wondering if Twitter offers any api that can be installed on my blog, so Twitter users can tweet from my blog when browsing my blog.
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Search for “google+” on Twitter without regular “google” in results

How do you search for "google+" on Twitter without results also showing the form without the plus sign (+)? I want to search for the literal google+ on Twitter. Unfortunately, the plus gets encoded ...
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Twitter Tweet Button don't use built in URL Shortener?

I am using the following code to generate a Tweet Button on my site. <a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-url="http://mysite.com/asdf" data-text="Description about ...
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Is the official Twitter search widget subject to the API rate limit?

I have been told by a development partner that we cannot use the normal Twitter search widget - found here - https://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets/widget_search because of the API rate limit. My ...
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Is there a way to fetch all of my tweets and save them on my computer?

The place I work at had a big convention last year in December (2010) and we heavily promoted participants to use twitter to interact online. Now I am trying to go back and see if I can fetch all the ...
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How can I recover my mentions from twitter?

When I search for my mentions on twitter almost all of them had disappeared, I used to have arround 50, and then only one remained, after that I got one new, and instead of having 2 now, the previous ...