Abraham, Valid suggestions all around but until the site itself formalizes the idea of retweets, the API cannot offer it. Both work with the same data.
Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Abraham Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh I forgot to mention that the web interface could be changed from: > >> about 5 hours ago from twitterrific in reply to poseurtech > > to: > >> about 5 hours ago from twitterrific retweeting poseurtech > > or some other better sounding wording. > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 13:28, Abraham Williams <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I wanted to throw the idea out of Twitter adding a retweet_of_status_id >> parameter to statuses. It would be added the same was as >> in_reply_to_status_id: >> >> >> http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json?status=text+here&retweet_of_status_id=1342534 >> >> A use case is following a retweet thread back to the original souce. >> >> What other use cases are there? >> >> Abraham >> >> -- >> Abraham Williams | Hacker | http://abrah.am >> @poseurtech | http://the.hackerconundrum.com >> Web608 | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org >> This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. >> Sent from Chicago, Illinois, United States > > > -- > Abraham Williams | Hacker | http://abrah.am > @poseurtech | http://the.hackerconundrum.com > Web608 | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org > This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. > Sent from Chicago, Illinois, United States
