Suggestions on Adding the Retweet Count and the Favorite Count of a Tweet.

[Mehrdad Momeny]

Hi Ahmed,
Did you test if this works? because some comments (under mentioned link)
said that it doesn't and twitter blocked it.

BTW, Obviously it's not a wise decision to rely on an undocumented API,
which could be blocked or changed without notice. But I have no problem if
you implement it as a plugin.

Hmm, I'm thinking on this scenario: user updates his timelines, and there's
some new tweets which doesn't have any retweet/favorite ATM. but later
he/she may check and see on twitter web there's some retweets, but here,
none! and he will fill a bug! and at the end, it's not a good thing to call
this api on a regular bases for all of posts (which can be over 1000) and
increase cpu/bandwidth usage.

So, At last, I prefer not to having this whole thing in Choqok. it's easier
and more clear. :D
what do you think?
And there's of course other things to implement for Choqok.

Regards,
Mehrdad


On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Ahmed Ibrahim Khalil <
ahmedibrahimkhali at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mehrdad,
>
> I see that I am with the second (the one that include the mockups) and I
> guess I can implement it.
>
> The problem now is how to get the favorites count of a tweet, After
> searching on Google I found no official solution except an undocumented API
> at that link [1].
>
> So I'd like to know if you are comfortable with using an undocumented API
> or not ?
>
>
>
> [1] -
> http://blog.fgribreau.com/2012/01/twitter-unofficial-api-getting-tweets.html
>
>
> Cheers
>
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Mehrdad Momeny <mehrdad.momeny at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Ahmed,
>> I think, having only the number of retweets(without favorites), couldn't
>> be useful enough.
>>
>> But about showing it in UI, Maybe showing it inside ReTweet button (only
>> the number, besides retweet icon) could be easier and non-destructive in
>> terms of keeping current GUI.
>>
>> Another idea is adding a new line to PostWidget signature, and showing
>> this on that line (I suggest putting new line above current info) and
>> making it optional, which user can enable/disable "Show number of
>> retweets/favorites" in Preferences/Appearance.
>>
>> Here you can find two mockups I created based on second idea:
>> http://postimg.org/image/u98753uj5/
>> http://postimg.org/image/xioqe3eqn/
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mehrdad
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Ahmed Ibrahim Khalil <
>> ahmedibrahimkhali at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am thinking of adding the retweet count and the favorite count inside
>>> the PostWidget.
>>>
>>> I've managed to retrieve the retweet count of a tweet but still finding
>>> a way on how to find the favorite count as I don't see any favourite_count
>>> attribute inside the tweet JSON except the favourites_count of a single
>>> user.
>>>
>>> If someone know a way please enlighten me.
>>>
>>> Finally, I'd like to know what is the best way to implement that feature
>>> for the best UI/UX experience ? In other words where should I put the
>>> retweet count label and how it should be styled as I am not experienced on
>>> UI/UX issues.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions would be very helpful and appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>>
>>>
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