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retweet count? #7

Open PedroAlucinante opened 6 years ago

PedroAlucinante commented 6 years ago

Do you have the number of times each tweet was retweeted? If so, this would be a valuable addition to this dataset.

eyejosh commented 6 years ago

i think they included it in the updates column

PedroAlucinante commented 6 years ago

Per the docs, updates is:

The number of “update actions” on the account that authored the tweet, including tweets, retweets and likes.

I'm hoping to see just the number of RTs; useful for estimating amplification.

PedroAlucinante commented 6 years ago

Is this doable and on the radar? Would be very useful. . .

billybrady commented 6 years ago

Can someone clarify what exactly "update actions" are? Is it the combined engagement count (likes/retweets/etc) for each tweet?