We mentioned in our early preview email about the retweet API (http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thread/1e07e332ec3d449d) that the statuses/friends_timeline resource wasn't going to include retweets for backwards compatibility so we don't break clients that aren't planning to add retweet support. The upgrade path is entirely opt-in. To that end we're adding a statuses/home_timeline resource that is in all ways identical to statuses/friends_timeline except the home_timeline resource *will* include retweets as demonstrated in the example payload in the documentation at http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-home_timeline.
The statuses/home_timeline resource is now available though it won't include any retweets until the retweeting feature is fully launched. To be clear, until the full retweet launch, statuses/home_timeline will be 100% identical to statuses/friends_timeline and will *not* include retweets. We wanted to make the resource available early though so that clients who will be incorporating retweets into their timelines can update the resource that they reference and have requests succeed. When the full retweet launch happens, retweets will start to appear in statuses/home_timeline as per the documentation. -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/noradio
