How to exclude the retweets from being considered in the count?

Sohaeb · 2016-08-11T05:19:12.859Z

Trying to get recent tweets from a user timeline w/ count = 3 & rts = false. I’m only getting 1 tweet back because rts are considered as a tweet.

How do you make it so that it totally exclude the retweets from counting ?

I have this set in the twitter API Console Tool :

?count=3&include_rts=false&user_id=0000000&screen_name=microsoft

andypiper · 2016-08-11T13:56:14.280Z

Unfortunately that’s not possible, as one filter has precedence over the other. Also, you should not specify both user_id and screen_name on that call - just one will work.

nrajsharma794 · 2017-01-04T10:59:00.967Z

Hi @Sohaeb,

I have a solution for you, this will definitely works

?count=3&q=helloworld%20exclude:retweets

and if you want to fetch only from some users then your query should be

?count=3&q=from:nrajsharma794%20OR%20from:sohaeb%20exclude:retweets