Hi @TCSF.
What you used was the Search Tweets API, but what you wanted to use is the Get Tweet timelines API.
twurl ‘/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=from%3ArealDonaldTrump’ | jq
This request that you sent then sent back a response of Tweets that contained the specified query “realDonaldTrump”. These Tweets are not from one specific user, they are from any user that had “realDonaldTrump” within the Tweet, thus the mentions, RTs and Tweets not from Trump himself.
To search Tweets of a user timeline, what you want to do is use the GET statuses/user_timeline reference and add any of the available parameters that you want.
Here is an example request using twurl
twurl GET -H api.twitter.com “/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=realDonaldTrump&count=3&exclude_replies=true&include_rts=false” | jq
I used the screen_name, count, exclude_replies, and include_rts parameters so that the response will only give back three organic Tweets from Donald Trump.
Here is the response
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Hope this helps!
Sam
