Hi all, I have switched the retweeting style of my app from using the RT @user text pattern to the new retweet API. If a logged in user on groovytweets.org now hits the green retweet buttons, it will fire off a retweet via the API. Unfortunately, the retweeted messages do not show up in that user's followers Home Timeline (the people following that user should get the retweet).
>From an API perspective, the request (via Twitter4J) is sent off and returns normally, no error in sight. The API method used is http://twitter.com/statuses/retweet and the statusId of the status who should be retweeted is sent wiht the requuest. Now if I understand the new home timeline correctly, this *might* not be an issue, in the following case: - if another user already had retweeted that status, it might have shown up in the follower's home time line earlier, meaning when I look onto the time line it might not be at the top. Is that understanding correct? I think retweeted statuses who already had been retweeted and 'received' by that user will not show up at the top again. Instead, the UI of twitter.com just adds the new retweeting user to the list of retweeted by.... for that status. This is of course potentially down in the stream of tweets, so the user might never see it (again). Or there is a bug :-) Either on my side or with twitter. What do you think? Cheers Sven