Comments by Travelthrprog (Top 4 by date)

That is a nice idea. But will not fit in with my scenario, where a admin has to approve tweets and retweets before displaying it in our webpage. So I am trying save it to the database.

Thanks for your response. When I googled it, lot of links were for using third party libraries..
To get all tweets, I found-topsy.com was the best one.

But we don't want to use third party libraries and no oauth..
Now I need to get only the retweets for the given tweet. When I looked at the xml returned, I am not able find the parentid of the retweet.
the next best approach I got was to exclude retweets and then use this
http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/retweets/:id.format to get the retweets for a given tweet. But this is too many calls. Is there a way to do this in one call?

Thank you for your immediate response. I have modified the question, it will be great if you could give me more light into the doubts I have.