smappR (version 0.5)

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

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.

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)