Question

I am using twitter search api

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/using-search

I want to search for a word (exact match) and count the no of mentions or hashtags of that word (exact match).

I have tried q="json" OR #json OR @json but they retun something like json_decode or @json_dude but I want exact match.

Also, is there anyway to count the no of retweets without ‘popular’ search ?

Answer 1

You cannot do exact search like this, there’s no way.

You can do exact search only when you are not using `OR’

i.e. you can do q="json" but not q="json" OR #json OR @json.

But you can count the retweets by looking at field in_reply_to_status_id_str.

Each in_reply_to_status_id_str represents that its a reply against a tweet , thus a retweet 🙂