Thank you for the swift, concise reply, Matt (or Mr. Harris (or Mr. Matt Harris (or Mr. The Matt Harris))). This is the price I pay for not paying closer attention to what is written in plain English on the Developer site. My apologies for being a tad dense here.
Also, thank you for making this platform so flexible and accommodating. On Sep 24, 7:52 pm, Matt Harris <thematthar...@twitter.com> wrote: > Hey Derek, > > The home_timeline includes retweets so the include_rts parameter is > not required. The reason we added the parameter to the user_timeline > and friends_timeline is because those methods, by default, do not > include retweets. This was for backwards compatibility with early > users of the API. > > For comparison, the home_timeline is the same as the friends_timeline > with include_rts=1 set. > > Hope that clarifies the reason why include_rts isn't includes with the > home_timeline method. > Best, > @themattharris > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:39 AM, @giromide <girom...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The latest announcement mentions include_rts for /1/statuses/ > > user_timeline and /1/statuses/friends_timeline but not for /1/statuses/ > > home_timeline. Am I alone in desiring include_rts for /1/statuses/ > > home_timeline as well? I find the current method of blocking retweets > > per user to be somewhat cumbersome, but I can understand Twitter's > > rationale behind this (some people retweet interesting things while > > others don't). What makes this platform great is that it can be > > consumed in so many different ways by so many different types of > > consumers. While a timeline-level block of retweets might be confusing > > when paired with user-level block of retweets, I see value in > > providing it to clients dedicated to simple reading of timelines by > > users who only want to read from those he or she follows. > > > Thank you for your time, > > --Derek > > > -- > > Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc > > API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi > > Issues/Enhancements Tracker:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > > Change your membership to this > > group:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > > -- > > Matt Harris > Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
