Exclude Retweets in Twitter Search API 1.1

Question

Here I\'m trying to retrieve the tweets which has the tag \'V57\' using search api 1.1. Dumped & seen the results of search term by using,

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Answer 1

I have found concatenating "-filter:retweets" to the end of your query string works best.

If you simply add -RT you might run into issues with accidentally filtering tweets containing "RT" for example "Russia Today" will use that string quite a lot!

The following pages describe Twitter search operators:

• https://support.twitter.com/articles/71577-using-advanced-search
• http://thesocialchic.com/2013/04/26/how-to-master-twitter-search/