Re: [twitter-dev] Re: retweets aren't appearing in track streaming api

2009-11-20 Thread Jim Gilliam
I added this retweet truncation bug to the issue tracker. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1219 On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Jim Gilliam wrote: > It's great that most retweets are coming through, but the fact that it's > cutting off the end of tweets, making the track AP

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: retweets aren't appearing in track streaming api

2009-11-20 Thread Mark McBride
You'll have to authenticate to use this call, but you don't have to authenticate as the user who posted the original tweet. Any valid user should do. Sent from mobile device On Nov 20, 2009, at 4:11 AM, "killyos...@gmail.com" > wrote: Is there a way to get at the retweets without enterin

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: retweets aren't appearing in track streaming api

2009-11-19 Thread Mark McBride
Also note that the safer way to do what (I think) you're trying to do is to use the retweets API (http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-retweets), for example curl -uyouruser:yourpassword api.twitter.com/1/statuses/retweets/5865706501.xml ---Mark On Thu, Nov 19, 2009

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: retweets aren't appearing in track streaming api

2009-11-19 Thread Jim Gilliam
It's great that most retweets are coming through, but the fact that it's cutting off the end of tweets, making the track API not work if what you're tracking happens to be in the last 15-20 characters of the tweet, is a problem. As it stands now, the only way for me to get at the retweets is to q

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: retweets aren't appearing in track streaming api

2009-11-19 Thread Mark McBride
Great! I checked through the code paths, and they look solid on our end. ---Mark On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Jim Gilliam wrote: > I figured out what's happening.  When "RT @thekabira" gets added to the > front of the tweet, it makes the tweet text longer than 140 characters, so > it the