from the API page > Twitter REST API Method: statuses/home_timeline [COMING SOON] > Returns the 20 most recent statuses, including retweets, posted by the > authenticating user and that user's friends. This is the equivalent of > /timeline/home on the Web. > > Usage note: This home_timeline is identical to statuses/friends_timeline > except it also contains retweets, which statuses/friends_timeline does not > (for backwards compatibility reasons). In a future version of the API, > statuses/friends_timeline will go away and be replaced by home_timeline. >
Does this mean that "in a future version of the API" there won't be any way to get a friends timeline without retweets? Because the ability to ignore retweets ought to be a Day 1 feature, IMO. I would put a much higher value on a unified feed which includes "*mentions* and friends" than "*retweets* and friends" FWIW TjL
