All the Twitter feeds and retweets

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Hi All,

I am currently working on requirement
To get all the tweets and retweets for my account to the database.

To do this-Can any one guide me using asp.net
1. Do I need to use Oauth authorization to get all tweets for my user account?

2. How to get ALL(1000) the tweets for the first time when I access the account?
I used the below method- which returns only 20 recent tweets-How do I get tweets entered fro 2011?
XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(string.Format("http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q={0}", name));
SyndicationFeed feed = SyndicationFeed.Load(reader);
3. How to get the tweets and the retweets with parent id?
In the above method how do I recognize the retweets and their parent ID's so I can identify the retweets of tweet?

Posted 9-Sep-12 15:31pm

Travelthrprog

Updated 10-Sep-12 4:46am

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bbirajdar 10-Sep-12 3:04am

What are your efforts? Have you tried anything? If you have any specific issues then post here . Otherwise post the requirement here

Travelthrprog 10-Sep-12 10:48am

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.

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Karthik. A · Answer 1 · 2012-09-10T04:58:00

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You could just have looked in to the twitter's dev group. Check out the following link:

https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/1157[^]

Posted 10-Sep-12 4:58am

Karthik. A

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Travelthrprog 10-Sep-12 12:15pm

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?

Karthik. A 10-Sep-12 12:17pm

Can't you show the retweets "on-demand", say, when the users clicks on "view re-tweets" link / button ? By this, you don't have to fetch all the re-tweets on load and get them only when needed?

Travelthrprog 10-Sep-12 13:16pm

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.