Exclude Retweets in Twitter Search API 1.1

Question

Here I'm trying to retrieve the tweets which has the tag 'V57' using search api 1.1. Dumped & seen the results of search term by using,

$search_tim = $connection->get('search/tweets',array('q' => ' #V57', 'count' => 5, 'result_type' => 'recent'));

This is the result after doing var_dump :

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Now, i would like to retrieve the original tweets alone which has V57 tag by ignoring all Retweets similar to this

string(131) "RT @useravv: Plz consult a doctor #V57"

I've googled and found this thread. But it was old API version.

My Doubt has been cleared. Thanks to the SO user Newbi3 :)

Here is a way to exclude Retweets in Search api 1.1

$search_tim = $connection->get('search/tweets',array('q' => ' #V57 -RT', 'count' => 5,'result_type' => 'recent')); 

Adding -RT at the end of search term will filter it.

EDIT :

The above approach will simply eliminate the tweet too if they included #RT is in their status and username or screename. This will blindly ignore tweets when its sees RT. This is a temporary solution.

The permanent solution is, get the RT status & if if its retweet simply assign a value like 1 to a variable & 0 if its original. Eg..

    if (isset($tweet_object->retweeted_status)) {   // This is a retweet   // Use the original tweet's entities, they are more complete   $entities = $tweet_object->retweeted_status->entities;         $is_rt = 1; // Set 1 if retweeted   } else {       $entities = $tweet_object->entities;       $is_rt = 0; // Set 0 if original   } 

Then just do like,

if($is_rt==0) // if its a original tweet {   ...   .... } 

Answer 1

I have found concatenating "-filter:retweets" to the end of your query string works best.

If you simply add -RT you might run into issues with accidentally filtering tweets containing "RT" for example "Russia Today" will use that string quite a lot!

The following pages describe Twitter search operators:

• https://support.twitter.com/articles/71577-using-advanced-search
• http://thesocialchic.com/2013/04/26/how-to-master-twitter-search/