Question

I am writing a script in PHP to get data from the twitter API, I want to be able to access the number of ‘tweets’ for a given URL, in the PHP Facebook API this is easily possible with a single ‘FQL Query’, however, within Twitter I can only find the following :

http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://www.bbc.co.uk

From a little bit of research it would seem this is a ‘private’ API and only available to the ‘tweet button’ and not custom scripts. Is there an alternative way of achieving this which is considered OK?

Answer 1

It works and does what you want, doesn’t it?

I think if twitter would does not like you to use it, it would stop you from doing so. But that is just my opinion 😉