Sometimes I encounter differences in the number of retweets that appear in the application with the number resulting from the API call.
In my case the number of API calls was more than what was shown in the app. This happens mostly on tweets with over 1000 retweets.
What causes this difference?
Does a private account or a banned account affect the display in the application while passing the API call?
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API call logs
Counts are “eventually consistent” so the count may not reflect the actual state of the data, due to deletions, private accounts, suspended accounts and tweets etc. The difference here is within an expected error margin for things like this.
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Well, let’s just say the app display is a legal number of retweets, or retweets that are considered legitimate. Is there a way to find out which retweets were excluded?
No, there’s no way to tell what’s missing if the counts are off by a couple of dozen.
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