Not quite as useful as retweet_of_statu_id would be:
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/1add67766b6ca880/

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 13:08, Chad Etzel<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> For the moment, I'll skip my rant about how stupid I think the "via"
> mechanism is, but I'm starting to notice a trend that several clients
> are now starting to set the in_reply_to_status_id data when the tweet
> is in fact a retweet/repost.
>
> I'm not sure how I feel about this.  One the one hand, they aren't
> replies, so it just seems like noise. One the other hand, it does give
> a direct link to the original source.
>
> How do others feel about this?
> -Chad
>



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