The REST APIs provide programmatic access to read and write Twitter data. Create a new Tweet, read user profile and follower data, and more. The REST API identifies Twitter applications and users using OAuth; responses are in JSON format.
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Why does the Twitter API search endpoint only show a max of 15 results when sorting by popular tweets?
When using the search endpoint, I am only getting a max of 15 results, no matter how popular of a search query I use. Setting count to 100 does not make a difference, however it does when sorting by most recent. Does anybody else experience this? Is…

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How to remove duplicate Images obtained from Twitter Rest Search API?
I am using twython to extract images shared on twitter for #apple. The images have a unique image ID assigned by twitter but the images are pictorially same. How can I detect duplicate images ?
For Local Images, I got the solution:
Calcuate Hash for…

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Twitter api upload image always return error "media type unrecognized"
I do POST-request on https://upload.twitter.com/1.1/media/upload.json
with postfield
'media_data' => base64_encode(file_get_contents($path))
twitter api always return error "media type unrecognized".
what's wrong?
I tried to change postfield to…

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How to post direct message using Twitter rest API
I am trying to post direct message using Twitter rest API in C#, but not able to get the results. I succeeded in posting status update by changing the basestring, but not in this case.
var oauth_token = "XXXX; //user
var…

Vikash Singh
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Historical data from Twitter using REST API
I am developing a PHP application using the Twitter API.
I have already achieved the data extraction from REST API using some queries
and then i have stored it in a MongoDB instance which can later be mined and accessed by my web application.
I want…

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Why twitter cursor is null?
I have some tweet id. I want to get retweeters of this tweet. Therefore, I use this api: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/statuses/retweeters/ids.
There is a example of code written with help python 3 and TwitterAPI:
credentials =…

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Twitter reverse auth credentials suddenly stopped working on iOS
I have been using reverse auth in my Twitter app for a year now. This morning my app reverse auth stopped working. After doing some inspecting, I found out that I am receiving an error message that states "Reverse auth credentials are invalid." This…

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Twitter Api: Autocomplete with friends
I'm trying to implement a "search for username" feature using the Twitter Api. Specifically, I need autocomplete.
I've noticed that /users/search/ doesn't work well, while looking for friends it keeps suggesting people that has nothing to do with me…

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Statuses/oembed of Twitter Rest API v1.1 returns {“errors”:[{“message”:“Sorry, that page does not exist”,“code”:34}]}
I'm trying to retrieve embedded tweets using statuses/oembed , the url sent to the api is https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/oembed/507185938620219395.json
but i noticed in the documentation the sent url should be…

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Twitter REST API check for suspension
When a user's Twitter account is suspended, user can still sign in with his/her Twitter account.
REST API doesn't give any information about the suspension.
If user makes a GET friends/ids, no error code comes. Only empty friends list.
Is there a…

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Twitter GET user_timeline Not Always Returning Count=200
We are running into an issue with a small percentage of our users. We iterate through a users tweets, making a call to user_timeline, count=200 and max_id of the previous iterations last post id. Most of the time it works great up to 3200, but there…

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oAuth 1.0, Advanced Rest Client, Twitter API, Not Working
I've done all the developer.twitter.com setup (created an app and a dev environment). In ARC, I have filled in the Authorization section, choosing oAuth 1.0, filled in the consumer key, consumer secret, token, token secret, and token auth URL. ARC…

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Twitter REST API using python
import oauth2 as auth
consumer = auth.Consumer(key=consumer_key, secret=consumer_secret)
access_token = auth.Token(key=access_token, secret=access_token_secret)
client = oauth.Client(consumer, access_token)
endpoint =…

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Retrieve screen name from twitter account?
Is it possible to get a twitter account's username from an instance of the Twitter REST client? Specifically, I would like to get the name for the twitter account associated with the client's access tokens and secrets.
I searched through the…

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How do I publish a tweet with media from Angular 2?
I am working on an IONIC project with angular. I want to publish tweet to a specific twitter account from the IONIC app. How can I do that?
I tried to use https://github.com/Aoinu/ng2-twitter this NPM package, but no luck. For browser, it is giving …

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