Kapenda, I don't see where it says coming soon. Please let me know so I can remove that label.
This feed is in production. We haven't settled our access policy for this stream, so we're not generally granting access yet. You can request access at [email protected], but I don't know when or by what criteria we'll approve these. Detail your use case. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Nov 16, 8:38 am, Kapenda Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > I noticed that the retweet api still says coming soon. It is available yet > for general consumption or do I have to have my developer API key approved > for use? > > thanks, > -k > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:56 AM, John Kalucki <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Once the retweet feature is launched, some statuses flowing through > > all /1/statuses resources in the Streaming API will be annotated as > > retweets. Clients using reasonable JSON and XML parsers shouldn't > > require a change. Clients using brittle parsers, or those not > > projecting result fields, but instead using some sort of all field > > parsing, may wish to test their stack with synthetic retweets. The new > > fields are described here: > >http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-statuses-retweet. > > > Follow the usual sources for announcements on the actual date of > > retweet general availability. I'd expect the launch date to be a few > > weeks or so away. We're taking precautions to prevent retweets from > > leaking into the Streaming API in advance of this full launch, but the > > prudent mariner prepares for the unexpected. > > > -John Kalucki > >http://twitter.com/jkalucki > > Services, Twitter Inc.
