I need to retrieve retweeters id using tweepy. import tweepy import time,json APP_KEY="" APP_SECRET="" OAUTH_TOKEN="" OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET="" auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(APP_KEY,APP_SECRET) auth.set_access_token(OAUTH_TOKEN,OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET) api = tweepy.API(auth) '''for status in api.user_timeline(screen_name='acmigdtuw',include_rts=1,count=200): print status.id''' firstTweet = api.user_timeline(screen_name="acmigdtuw")[0] print firstTweet.text print firstTweet.id #results = api.retweets(status.id,cursor=-1,stringify_ids=1) pl = api.retweets.id(id=firstTweet.id) print pl[0]['user']['screen_name'] Continue reading...