I noticed that the retweet api still says coming soon. It is available yet for general consumption or do I have to have my developer API key approved for use?
thanks, -k On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:56 AM, John Kalucki <jkalu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Once the retweet feature is launched, some statuses flowing through > all /1/statuses resources in the Streaming API will be annotated as > retweets. Clients using reasonable JSON and XML parsers shouldn't > require a change. Clients using brittle parsers, or those not > projecting result fields, but instead using some sort of all field > parsing, may wish to test their stack with synthetic retweets. The new > fields are described here: > http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-statuses-retweet. > > Follow the usual sources for announcements on the actual date of > retweet general availability. I'd expect the launch date to be a few > weeks or so away. We're taking precautions to prevent retweets from > leaking into the Streaming API in advance of this full launch, but the > prudent mariner prepares for the unexpected. > > -John Kalucki > http://twitter.com/jkalucki > Services, Twitter Inc. > >
