[twitter-dev] Incorrect Retweet Responses

[Dan Deming-Henes]

I'm working to integrate support for official retweets in my app, but
I'm running into issues. I believe I'm getting incorrect responses
from Twitter.

When successful I get the correct response (info about a new tweet
that is a retweet of the original tweet). However, when I ask to
retweet a tweet from a private account or some other "illegal" action,
rather than getting an error response, I get info about a retweet of
this tweet: http://twitter.com/brettschulte/status/5656834480.

I've tested this from two accounts (@TwittBeta, @AlternatePixel) and
have gotten the same results.

Also, not sure if it's any help, but looking at the incorrect response
(attached below), I noticed that there is no ID for the retweet.
Perhaps this has something to do with why it's getting returned?

Hope this can get fixed soon.

Dan

------------- The Incorrect Response

<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>
<status>
  <created_at></created_at>
  <id></id>
  <text>RT @brettschulte: Beer drinking this weekend.  Who's in?
http://bit.ly/9Kb3u</text>
  <source>&lt;a href=&quot;http://apiwiki.twitter.com/&quot;
rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;API&lt;/a&gt;</source>
  <truncated>false</truncated>
  <in_reply_to_status_id></in_reply_to_status_id>
  <in_reply_to_user_id></in_reply_to_user_id>
  <favorited>false</favorited>
  <in_reply_to_screen_name></in_reply_to_screen_name>
  <retweeted_status>
    <created_at>Thu Nov 12 19:09:52 +0000 2009</created_at>
    <id>5656834480</id>
    <text>Beer drinking this weekend.  Who's in?  http://bit.ly/9Kb3u</text>
    <source>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tweetdeck.com/&quot;
rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TweetDeck&lt;/a&gt;</source>
    <truncated>false</truncated>
    <in_reply_to_status_id></in_reply_to_status_id>
    <in_reply_to_user_id></in_reply_to_user_id>
    <favorited>false</favorited>
    <in_reply_to_screen_name></in_reply_to_screen_name>
    <user>
      <id>676203</id>
      <name>Brett Schulte</name>
      <screen_name>brettschulte</screen_name>
      <location>Los Angeles</location>
      <description>&#220;ber Geek</description>
      <profile_image_url>http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/60304100/
JVI_0224_normal.jpg</profile_image_url>
      <url>http://www.brettschulte.com</url>
      <protected>false</protected>
      <followers_count>1848</followers_count>
      <profile_background_color>1A1B1F</profile_background_color>
      <profile_text_color>666666</profile_text_color>
      <profile_link_color>2FC2EF</profile_link_color>
      <profile_sidebar_fill_color>252429</profile_sidebar_fill_color>
      <profile_sidebar_border_color>181A1E</
profile_sidebar_border_color>
      <friends_count>417</friends_count>
      <created_at>Sun Jan 21 19:29:04 +0000 2007</created_at>
      <favourites_count>4</favourites_count>
      <utc_offset>-28800</utc_offset>
      <time_zone>Pacific Time (US &amp; Canada)</time_zone>
      <profile_background_image_url>http://s.twimg.com/a/1257899144/
images/themes/theme9/bg.gif</profile_background_image_url>
      <profile_background_tile>false</profile_background_tile>
      <statuses_count>5964</statuses_count>
      <notifications>false</notifications>
      <geo_enabled>false</geo_enabled>
      <verified>true</verified>
      <following>true</following>
    </user>
    <geo/>
  </retweeted_status>
  <user>
    <id>15199539</id>
    <name>Mark Milian</name>
    <screen_name>markmilian</screen_name>
    <location>Los Angeles</location>
    <description>la times writer: tech + social media + politics +
indie rock music</description>
    <profile_image_url>http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/475986397/
DSC00397-post_normal.JPG</profile_image_url>
    <url>http://markmilian.com</url>
    <protected>false</protected>
    <followers_count>2228</followers_count>
    <profile_background_color>648ACE</profile_background_color>
    <profile_text_color>000000</profile_text_color>
    <profile_link_color>346A8F</profile_link_color>
    <profile_sidebar_fill_color>FFE3AF</profile_sidebar_fill_color>
    <profile_sidebar_border_color>485D6C</
profile_sidebar_border_color>
    <friends_count>222</friends_count>
    <created_at>Sun Jun 22 18:32:07 +0000 2008</created_at>
    <favourites_count>60</favourites_count>
    <utc_offset>-28800</utc_offset>
    <time_zone>Pacific Time (US &amp; Canada)</time_zone>
    <profile_background_image_url>http://a1.twimg.com/
profile_background_images/3682820/ew-t.png</
profile_background_image_url>
    <profile_background_tile>false</profile_background_tile>
    <statuses_count>1969</statuses_count>
    <notifications>false</notifications>
    <geo_enabled>false</geo_enabled>
    <verified>false</verified>
    <following>false</following>
  </user>
  <geo/>
</status>