I am trying to extract data from Twitter. The data includes the tweets and people who retweeted a particular tweet. I have 46,000 tweets and I need to find retweeters for each of the tweet. Further, using Twitter call: retweet/id, you can pass only one id at a time, limiting 15 requests per 15 minutes. Is there any way to surpass this limit and make unlimited calls?
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Not through the REST API, no.
You may want to investigate Twitter's Streaming API to see if the functionality it provides meets your needs. Accessing it is a little more complex than the REST API, but it may be able to help you meet your needs.
You will find people who will tell you to do things like set up dummy accounts and dummy applications. Don't do this. Twitter actively monitors the API for use patterns like this and you will find your applications and IP addresses blacklisted.
