I added this retweet truncation bug to the issue tracker. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1219
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Jim Gilliam <[email protected]> wrote: > It's great that most retweets are coming through, but the fact that it's > cutting off the end of tweets, making the track API not work if what you're > tracking happens to be in the last 15-20 characters of the tweet, is a > problem. As it stands now, the only way for me to get at the retweets is > to query each individual tweet (like /statuses/retweets/5865706501.json), > over and over and over again to check. Yuck! > > Jim > > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Mark McBride <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Great! I checked through the code paths, and they look solid on our end. >> >> ---Mark >> >> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Jim Gilliam <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I figured out what's happening. When "RT @thekabira" gets added to the >> > front of the tweet, it makes the tweet text longer than 140 characters, >> so >> > it then cuts off the rest of the tweet, which is what had "act" in it, >> so it >> > never shows up through the streaming api tracking for anything with >> "act" in >> > it. >> > >> > So this tweet: "What’s the deal with the Climate Bill? RT new >> > #climategraphic, win a prize! http://bit.ly/12H1X7 via @PhaedraEL >> > http://act.ly/Rxt"; >> > >> > turns into this, when it's retweeted: >> > >> > "RT @thekabira: What’s the deal with the Climate Bill? RT new >> > #climategraphic, win a prize! http://bit.ly/12H1X7 via @PhaedraEL >> http://ac >> > ..." >> > >> > Jim >> > >> > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Jim Gilliam <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> My understanding is that the only way to get all the new retweets is >> >> through the streaming API because they don't show up in search. So >> I'm >> >> using the track method, but I'm not seeing retweets come through. >> >> >> >> Specifically, this: http://twitter.com/thekabira/status/5865706501 was >> >> retweeted twice, but I didn't see it come through. Old style retweets >> >> continue to come through normally. >> >> >> >> Jim Gilliam >> >> http://act.ly/ >> >> http://twitter.com/jgilliam >> > >> > >> > >
