Collecting replies to a tweet

[mfuoli]

Hello!

I'm using rtweet for research purposes and find it incredibly useful. However, I haven't been able to figure out how to collect replies to a given tweet. Is there a straightforward way of doing so?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Matt

[ConorIA]

Unfortunately there does not seem to be any mechanism in the Twitter API to accomplish this. See here. As far as I am aware, this is still true. The workarounds seem to be request-heavy and can get to be very expensive.

[tylerlittlefield]

Apparently, this will be possible in the revamped API, source: https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tools/2020/introducing_new_twitter_api.html

• A cleaner API that's easier to use, with new developer features like the ability to specify which fields get returned, or retrieve more Tweets from a conversation within the same response
• Some of the most requested features that were missing from the API, including conversation threading, poll results in Tweets, pinned Tweets on profiles, spam filtering, and a more powerful stream filtering and search query language

This looks exciting, as I am really interested in visualizing twitter conversations.

[mfuoli]

This looks very exciting! Any idea when it will be released or when it will be implemented into rtweet?

[llrs]

No dates, on when the new API will be implemented on rtweet. Also at the moment it doesn't seem that this functionally is provided yet.

[hadley]

Looks like this will need to wait on v2 support: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/conversation-id