getRetweets: Returns the list of user IDs that retweeted a specific tweet.

In NetDem-USC/netdemR: Tools for analysis of Twitter data

Description

getRetweets connects to the REST API of Twitter and returns a list of up to 100 user IDs belonging to users who have retweeted the tweet specified by the id parameter.

Usage

getRetweets(id = NULL, oauth_folder, cursor = -1, verbose = TRUE,
  sleep = 1)

Arguments

id	The numerical ID of the desired status
oauth_folder	folder where OAuth tokens are stored.
cursor	See https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/retweeters/ids
verbose	If TRUE, prints information about API calls on console
sleep	Number of seconds to sleep between API calls.

Author(s)

Pablo Barbera [e-mail]

Examples

## Not run: 
## Download list of recent user IDs retweeting a tweet by Hillary Clinton
 rts <- getRetweets(id='653733796408377344', oauth_folder="~/credentials/twitter")

## End(Not run)

NetDem-USC/netdemR documentation built on May 7, 2019, 6:06 p.m.