find tweets mentioning any arbitrary twitter user

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For statuses/mentions, I need to authenticate as a user. I want to see the user's mentions without asking him/her to authenticate. If the tweets are public, what are the mentions not public ?

I'm writing to do this

score 7 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 06 '17 at 22:36

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Check the Twitter search API https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/search/api-reference/get-search-tweets.html

To find all user mentions: just use @username as search term.

edited Nov 06 '17 at 22:36

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answered Nov 16 '10 at 08:29

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 02 '17 at 06:26

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I would like to add that Twitter's Search API returns only tweets from past 7 days. So if you want to retrieve ALL tweets mentioning an arbitrary user, you can't.
If anyone finds a way to do this, please mention.

answered Mar 02 '17 at 06:26

keerthana

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Thanks, can confirm, it only got me tweets not older than 9 days. I had to do a JavaScript workaround https://gist.github.com/elhardoum/c0c0fe3c41e7947a22417209f671b78d – Ismail Jan 14 '19 at 13:19

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 17 '10 at 18:38

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There is no way to get a user's mentions using the statuses/mentions endpoint because this is possible using the search api.

http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/search

answered Nov 17 '10 at 18:38

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find tweets mentioning any arbitrary twitter user

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