According to the API documentation retweets do not appear in a user's
timeline when requested via the statuses/user_timeline method. It
seems as though through the API it's not possible to see what a
particular individual is retweeting. Is this assertion correct, and
if so, is there a plan to
Also, it would be awesome if we could get through the API that a
status has been retweeted when making requests to a user's timeline.
This would avoid the overhead of going through each tweet and making a
statuses/retweets call.
+1