On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Abraham Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > > What other use cases are there?
Filtering! This would be a client-side setting/option I would expect, but if there is a retweet_of_status_id field set (or greater than 0/null) then it would indicate a retweet. This would help eliminate the need for clients to do several regex type matches to determine if it is, in fact, a retweet (I was actually implementing such regex matching in some of my code as we speak). However, since I think Twitter.com itself does not recognize retweets in any form or fasion as being different than any other normal tweet (as opposed to replies (now mentions) which it treats as special tweets), they may not want to "acknowledge" them officially in the API until they do so on the site. Now that retweets are a logical subset of mentions, it may be a different story. -Chad
