Retweets

I think it would be useful to have a command like this:

twarc2 retweets {tweet-url}

Which would fetch the retweets by looking up the conversation-id and then issuing the appropriate search. An optional --archive parameter could indicate whether to use the Academic Search endpoint.

[igorbrigadir]

Waiting to hear back from twitter on this proposal: https://github.com/twitterdev/open-evolution/pull/4

[mr-devs]

Commenting here because I’m curious how you end up doing this… 😄

I’m working on a project right now where we are trying to reconstruct retweet cascades and - to get all retweets in a cascade between time X and time Y - we utilize the retweets_of:{user_id} search parameter (as @igorbrigadir suggested above) with start and end times being X and Y. user_id represents the user originating the cascade.

This approach returns a lot of extra retweets and then, after all the retweets are downloaded, we match the returned retweets to the original tweet’s id number by using the referenced_tweets tweet field.

All of the cascades we are interested in contain links so we also include has:links in the query and you can keep adding in these types of filters to reduce the number of extra tweets that are returned in the query. I was hesitant to include the actual tweet text (because it seems like there might be some potential for weird behavior depending on each tweet’s text) but I suppose that should work too!