I figured out why I was not seeing native retweets being included in
my results.
I was calling api.twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline, but should have
been calling api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.
Adding the 1/ for the api version made the difference.
Perhaps that is the cause of Anil's
Abraham, you are right that I had the wrong understanding of the
parameter. When I read the timeline will contain native retweets in
addition to the standard stream of tweets I didn't realize it meant
native retweets of the mentions themselves. It makes sense to me now
but I am not sure how that
I've seen the same behavior with the include_rts parameter. I have
tried passing the values 'true', 't', and '1' with no success.
On Feb 8, 7:15 pm, Anil Chawla ani...@gmail.com wrote:
It's been a while but I want to follow up on this because we still
have the issue. Is anyone able to pull
I think you have the wrong idea of what include_rts does. Include_rts is
designed to include native retweets in timelines where default inclusion
would break. For example /statuses/user_timeline expects all tweets to be
from a user A. But if that user A has retweeted user B then user Bs tweets
can
It's been a while but I want to follow up on this because we still
have the issue. Is anyone able to pull native retweets when calling
the statuses/mentions endpoint?
An indication that includes_rts either works for you or doesn't work
would be great. Thanks,
-Anil
On Dec 14 2010, 11:44 am,
