In the examples that are shown in the developers preview for the RT
api these where prefixed with RT, was this done on purpose or did this
change after the examples where made public?

On Nov 11, 6:48 pm, John Kalucki <jkalu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Search is aware of the need for a retweet operator, but the feature is
> unscheduled and completely speculative.
>
> In any case, Search will become less useful for this sort of
> repetitive complete corpus search. If you need all of something, or a
> sample of something, you should be moving to the Streaming API
> wherever possible.
>
> -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki
> Services, Twitter Inc.
>
> On Nov 11, 9:39 am, Yaniv Golan <stu...@yanivgolan.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Thanks John,
> > this means that my app won't work anymore!
> > streaming api makes my life very hard
> > hence i need to search for links and then extract them, this is very
> > resource demanding to do on the fly
> > while with search API i can search then extract and then search again
> > i could use queue system but then again i will lose all the real time
> > fun
> > will there be a filter in the search api for retweets like there is
> > for links?
> > that could solve all my problems
>
> > On Nov 11, 7:22 pm, John Kalucki <jkalu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Retweets do not modify the original text in any way. There is no RT to
> > > search upon.
>
> > > There is a feed of all public retweets on the Streaming API, but it is
> > > not generally available. Instead, you can request a sample of all
> > > statuses and filter for those that are retweets.
>
> > > -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki
> > > Services, Twitter Inc.
>
> > > On Nov 11, 8:58 am, Yaniv Golan <stu...@yanivgolan.com> wrote:
>
> > > > oh...
> > > > that's cool :)
> > > > Thanks i really got wםrried for a sec
>
> > > > On Nov 11, 5:08 pm, Walter Smulders <walter.smuld...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > With the retweet function the status text will still be prefixed with
> > > > > RT
>
> > > > > On Nov 11, 11:59 am, Yaniv Golan <yango2...@walla.co.il> wrote:
>
> > > > > > Hi
> > > > > > I'm using twitter search API to search statuses with retweet
> > > > > > expressions (e.g RT VIA) with the link filter
> > > > > > i search the documentation over and over but i can't find any 
> > > > > > solution
> > > > > > to what will happen after the retweet will rollout completely (the
> > > > > > retweet expressions as we knew them will disappear and there is no
> > > > > > other API method to much my search criteria)
> > > > > > what should i do to get all the retweets that contains links?
> > > > > > thanks

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