Featured : May 24, 2022

Get Tweet Engagements Using .NET and C#

Photo by Kelly Sikkema

I’ve found Twitter is a great way to engage with the .NET community as a whole. Engaging in discussions, sharing ideas and inspiration, and even disagreeing can be a fun part of being part of the tech community. That said, there are a lot of ways you can use the Twitter API to get more from your time on the social network. I use the .NET package LinqToTwitter to share images and tweets with friends on a timed interval, and help promote this very blog you’re reading right now.

One thing I’ve wanted to do for a while is to understand engagements in the context of a single tweet. In this post, I’ll show you how to use LinqToTwitter to get all users who liked or retweeted a particular tweet.

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