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BackType: BackTweets To Search Links On Twitter

  • Malcolm Bastien · 9 months ago
    Wow, good job at creating tools that will make things plain and simply, easier for people.

    Keep it up!
  • Christopher Golda · 9 months ago
    Thanks; we most certainly will ;)
  • mattsingley · 9 months ago
    Fantastic! I love it. Thanks for putting this together.
  • Adina Levin · 9 months ago
    This is excellent. The next valuable step here is to search for url-shortened links on Facebook, Friendfeed, and other places where people are sharing links.
  • alex williams · 9 months ago
    Wow! Tremendous twitter tool here!
  • thruflo · 9 months ago
    Hi,

    Great tool, just working on a python wrapper, wanted to ask how the since_id parameter is parsed. The timestamp in the example on the api page (1300588696) seems to me to resolve to the 20th March 2011::

    >>> d = datetime.fromtimestamp(1300588696)
    >>> d
    datetime.datetime(2011, 3, 20, 2, 38, 16)

    Yet some manual testing shows me that 1300588696 does works as a timestamp (I get 88 results for www.yahoo.com). Can you tell me how you generate / parse / compare the timestamp?

    Thanks,

    James.
  • Mike Montano · 9 months ago
    Hey James,

    The since_id refers to the Twitter status id of the latest tweet. So this parameter can be used to returns tweets with ids greater than the given id.
  • thruflo · 9 months ago
    Gotcha; that makes a lot of sense!

    Thanks for quick reply :)

    James.