Retweets are indeed showing up in all feeds. $ curl -s stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/sample.xml -uxxx:yyy | grep retweeted_status <retweeted_status> </retweeted_status> <retweeted_status> </retweeted_status> <retweeted_status> </retweeted_status> <retweeted_status> </retweeted_status> <retweeted_status> </retweeted_status>
? -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Dec 1, 11:02 am, hansamann <sven.hai...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > it is my understanding that retweets should show up in the Twitter > Streaming API and especially the 'filter' Stream which I am using. My > last discussion a few weeks (months) ago with a Twitter Dev confirmed > that. > > I am using the Twitter4J API which has support for the new new Retweet > API, still I cannot seem to detect retweets when using the streams. > > Can someone confirm that retweets (and with that I mean the new > retweet payload) makes it into the streams? > > ---- > > I'd also like to know what conventions are used for the backwar- > compatible text Twitter is using. I saw that statuses which were > retweeted result in the RT @username <text> in the Status itself which > is great for backward compatibility. But what happens in case the > original message was too long? Is twitter making an exception to the > 140 characters in thsi case or just cutting the message? > > Thanx > Sven
