I strongly agree with the OP.
Problem: Unable to get the complete timeline for a user including
retweets (without logging in)!
There is an important limitation with the API regarding retweets. With
the new retweets feature, in the current API, it is not possible to
get a complete timeline for a
The backwards compatibility problem is SAX event based parsers that, without
proper code in place to set the current context, will just blindly grab the
screen_name and text attributes etc in potentially non-deterministic ways
thus mixing up, potentially, the tweeter from the retweeter, and the
As of today, I've noticed that retweets created via the new system are
represented in user timelines as RT @username...--are others seeing
this, and is this something new? Is this leftovers from the old to new
retweeting transition, or is this going to be a permanent method for
representing
I don't see why we even need it to be backwards compatible as
technically it already is surely?
The home_timeline status's are the actual retweet, to make it new
style retweet compatible you need to explicitly handle the retweeted
status nodes.
On Dec 15, 4:06 pm, Cameron Kaiser
There are several threads looking for a way to get built-in retweets
via teh user_timeline as was available before with organic (i.e.,
RT ...) _tweets.
Has there been any decision made on what will be done here? _ Built-in
retweets are invisible to the user_timeline which is a
Perhaps we should now have a 1.5 version under api.twitter.com ;) Then
those of us that want them can use them without breaking apps that
don't parse XML or JSON correctly.
On Dec 16, 2:04 pm, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote:
There are several threads looking for a way to get
+1
There are several threads looking for a way to get built-in retweets
via teh user_timeline as was available before with organic (i.e.,
RT ...) tweets.
Has there been any decision made on what will be done here? Built-in
retweets are invisible to the user_timeline which is a loss of
Not ideal but for any users whom you have authorized credentials for you can
use:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-statuses-retweeted_by_me
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 07:19, Jeffrey jeffreywin...@gmail.com wrote:
+1
There are several threads looking for a way to get built-in
Not ideal but for any users whom you have authorized credentials for you can
use:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-statuses-retweeted_by_me
Definitely not ideal. +1 for
There are several threads looking for a way to get built-in retweets
via teh user_timeline as was
