#1

Is it possible to retrieve tweets from a user home timeline based on Twitter suggestions and topics, and not just the users he follows?

#2

Currently no, only the reverse chronological timeline is available - if the accounts the authenticating user is following.

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#3

Great thanks Igor for your answer.

Are there any official (or unofficial) tools that you’re aware of that could retrieve or scrape those tweets I mentioned from the homepage? Even if they only give out the ids of the tweets and I could hydrate later with the API, that’s fine. I’ve been looking but I can’t find any such tool.

To be clear, what I’m trying to do is trying to retrieve viral tweets, and the ‘Viral Tweet’ Topic on Twitter is perfect for that. So if I only subscribe to ‘Viral Tweet’ and retrieve everything from the homepage then I should have what I need.

#4

You can get these using the context annotations instead: context:110.910930632846360576 full list here: GitHub - twitterdev/twitter-context-annotations: Flat files containing available context annotation entities.

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#5

Thanks Igor. It’s written the entity name is “Funny Tweets”, so the viral tweets topic page is fed directly from only that entity?

#6

No, it’s not exactly the same - but it’s the closest thing i could find that would give you something similar.