Getting tweet replies to a particular tweet from a particular user

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Huga picture Huga · Apr 28, 2015 · Viewed 14.7k times · Source

I am trying to go through tweets of a particular user and get all replies on that tweet. I found that the APIv1.1 of twitter does not directly support it.

Is there a hack or a workaround on getting the replies for a particular tweet. I am using python Streaming API.

Answer

Juan E. picture Juan E. · Apr 30, 2015

There is a workaround using the REST API.

You will need the id_str and @username of the author of the original tweet you want to find replies to.

You should use the Search API for the "@username" of the author. Go through the results looking for the 'in_reply_to_status_id' field to compare to the id_str of the specific tweet you want replies for.

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