获取Twitter提及未经过身份验证的用户

Question

when I look at the API Docs of Twitter for mentions it says the following

Returns the 20 most recent mentions (tweets containing a users's @screen_name) for the authenticating user. The timeline returned is the equivalent of the one seen when you view your mentions on twitter.com. This method can only return up to 800 tweets. See Working with Timelines for...

However, another site I found gets the mentions without having the user authenticated.

How exactly do I get those mentions? From the picture I posted it looks like the site gets only the public data, so how does it get the mentions when the API states that the mentions are only for the authenticating user?

Answer 1

I would imagine they're using the Streaming API to access all tweets and process them, as this would allow them to see how many tweets mention that particular user.