Sounds like a bad idea simply because the name of it IS 'in_REPLY_to_status_id', and retweets aren't replies.
I wonder if Twitter will adopt retweets in any way, in the same way they did with replies? On Jun 22, 7:08 pm, 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
