Hi Terence,
There is a known issue where retweets are being reported as favorites (or
not) when they shouldn't be. The ticket being used to track this is on our
public issue tracker:
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=2096
Best,
@themattharris
Developer Advocate, Twitter
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There seems to be an error with the JSON feed when it comes to
retweets.
User Alice favourites a tweet from Bob, and then retweets to to
Charlie.
The JSON feed that Charlie gets marks Bob's tweet as one of Charlies
favourites. This does not happen in the XML feed.
JSON (snipped)
"created_at