I've got a tweet out in the wild that had thousands of retweets in a short amount of time. I want to know how to search through the tweet's retweets to find the ones made by verified accounts. Is there a way to do this?
Twitter – How to View Retweets by Verified Accounts
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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:
You can't likely get to all of them. The data is spread out. Your best bet is to use the REST API to determine many of the users who performed the retweet, but the data will still be constrained.
It's easiest to track retweets as they happen rather than try to find them from the past. Use the Streaming API for that.
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
You can do this on the Twitter web client by typing the following search query in the search field:
On the search results, be sure to click the "Latest" tab. What you'll get is a scrollable chronological list of all the verified accounts who have retweeted you. Scroll down the list to get retweets older than one week.
NOTE: the
filter:nativeretweetssearch operator picks up only native retweets, that means you won't see retweets with quotes and you won't see retweets made with an API client. you can use thefilter:retweetsfilter instead however the results there are "dirty" as it catches also tweet which have your@username+ the wordRTin them.