[twitter-dev] include_rts for /1/statuses/home_timeline

2010-09-24 Thread @giromide
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

Re: [twitter-dev] include_rts for /1/statuses/home_timeline

2010-09-24 Thread Matt Harris
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.