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

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Help with Twitter Advanced Search: Retrieve Tweets, Replies, Quotes, and Retweets within a Date Range form user

I'm trying to see some tweets from a specific Twitter user within a specified date range using Twitter Advanced Search. Currently, I've been using the following queries: To get Tweets, Replies, and ...
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Help loading all /followers on Twitter

I need a script or app to scroll all the way to the bottom of a verified account's /followers page on Twitter. There are millions of followers which makes automation a necessity. What are the options ...
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Search Twitter for Tweets Containing Polls

I'm trying to figure out a way to use Twitter Advanced Search to find only tweets containing polls. Ideally, there should have been a designated filter operator like filter:polls but it doesn't exist....
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How to show Quote Tweets only through Advanced Search

I'd like to be able to see only quote tweets quoting my Tweets. This is missing from the "Mentions Only" notification filter. Seeing all notifications includes a lot of noise, like Retweets ...
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Twitter's Restriction of Links

I have an old Twitter account in which I used to post links to my blog articles, without engaging, as I didn't know the rules. Then I realized that my tweets which contain a link did not appear in ...
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Is there anyway to divide account tweets using API into categories for news? [closed]

I'm planning to create a news website using twitter API to fetch tweets of specific news resource accounts. Is there anyway to categorize them into sports, break news, culture ... etc? Here's the ...
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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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Find Twitter account mostly retweeting and liking

There are multiple platforms that provide information like most mentioned, favourite tweet, most liked tweet, etc. Is there any way to identify a Twitter account who is retweeting or liking the most ...
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How to add personal phone number to multiple Twitter accounts?

I have a personal twitter account, with my personal phone number attached to it. I want to create a twitter app (bot). I created a new twitter account for this bot then went here to register the app. ...
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How to manage who I'm following on Twitter [closed]

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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Follow users by criteria on Twitter

Keeping in mind Twitter's Following rules and best practices, I've tried Crowdfire's Keyword follow and I find it very powerful because: I can easily list many users whose profile or tweets match a ...
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How can I connect to Twitter API via a proxy? [closed]

I am a starter and need to connect to Twitter API via a proxy and tweet : Hello World? My web site is .NET, C# and I want to tweet events on my site to Twitter via Twitter API. Please give me an ...
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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 around 50, and then only 1 remained, after that I got one new, and instead of having 2 now, the previous one ...
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How to find out the exact time of a tweet? [duplicate]

When viewing a tweet on Twitter, it only allows you to see the hour and the min (9:26AM). Is there a way to find out the exact timestamp of that tweet, in milliseconds?
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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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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 And ...
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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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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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Pull Twitter Posts into Google Spreadsheets

I would like to set-up a Google Spreadsheet that automatically pulls Twitter search results into the cells. For instance, I'd like to search for "pizza" near "baltimore" and then have any pizza ...
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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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Why does Twitter say I've got tweets, but then pull the football away?

My site (listed on my user's page) shows this on my twitter widget when I hover: "This page has been shared 15 times. View these tweets" This actually makes sense, because I have mentioned it in ...
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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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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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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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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 ...