The "Your tweets retweeted" page on Twitter shows which of your tweets have been retweeted, but usually it says something like "retweeted by @madeuptwitteraccount and others" is there any way to find out (a) how many people have retweeted a tweet and (b) what their twitter IDs are?
Twitter – How to find out all the users who retweeted a tweet of mine
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Yes, it could either be that particular tweet is not part of a conversation (i.e No one replied to it or the tweet itself isn't a reply) or it maybe part of a conversation but the other person has protected their tweets.
EDIT
Protecting your Tweets
To protect your tweets Log in to Twitter and navigate to your Settings. Then scroll down and tick the check box Protect my tweets
Then click Save to confirm your changes.
It is not possible without getting down in HTML or using an extension that does what I am going to do. It was most likely formatted this way to be more friendly to the wider audience.
Right click the time link and inspect the source with an approriate browser.
You should see something similar to the following.
<div class="stream-item-header">
<small class="time">
<a href="/codinghorror/status/94410540117536768" class="tweet-timestamp js-permalink" title="10:16 AM - 22 Jul 11">
<span class="_timestamp js-short-timestamp " data-time="1311344201" data-long-form="true">22 Jul</span></a>
data-time has all the information you need. For example, you can use Wolfram Alpha to convert it.
Quicker ways include
- using a JavaScript console and
Date()(new Date(1311344201000);) - the
showAPI method - Use another Twitter application and use ChrisF's method to rollover to see:
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Best Answer
The answers so far will only give you at most 100 retweets. There is an API method that returns up to 100 entries of a cursored collection (so you can page through it to get more), though.
There's more information on the Twitter Developers site at GET statuses/retweeters/ids, though you'll also want to read their page about Using cursors to navigate collections.
Edited to add: That said, the first thread on the Developers site that surfaced in a quick google has @episod, a Twitter employee saying:
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