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 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
>
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