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amorfis
amorfis

Reputation: 15770

Why one tweet can have many IDs?

When searching tweets by the Twitter API, I got many tweets in the response with different IDs, but representing the same tweet. Example of IDs:

898174127525199872
898164436929716224
898163389104406529
898162871690944513
898163196938248193

You can see any of this tweets by URL: twitter.com/Triangle_Global/status/<id> - replacing <id> with a number. All this URLs redirect to the same address, the page with tweet 897793867822411776. Moreover, this ID was not returned in the search query.

Why one tweet has many IDs? Is it possible to construct a query that returns only "original" tweets, without such "duplicate" ids?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 251

Answers (1)

Jonas
Jonas

Reputation: 4048

All these tweets that you reference are retweets of 897793867822411776. You can see this by looking at the retweeted_status field.

You didn't say which API endpoint you are using. If you are using search/tweets there is no way to return only "original" tweets. What you can do is throw out any tweets that has the retweeted_status field present. If the tweet is not a retweet it will not contain this field.

Upvotes: 1

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