This project allows to get the ids for an entire thread in twitter. It works by giving an id of a tweet of the thread and it take cares of looking for The previous tweets and get following ones.
The best performance is archived using as root (starting point) the last tweet, Since it just follows the chain. Using the first one as a root has the worst performance as it has to look for more tweets in a twitter search.
By now you need to configure the database (I use peewee with postgresql). To get the threat call the root function in status.py with the id of a tweet.