from http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-user_timeline
"Note: For backwards compatibility reasons, retweets are stripped out of the user_timeline when calling in XML or JSON (they appear with 'RT' in RSS and Atom). If you'd like them included, you can merge them in from statuses retweeted_by_me<http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-retweeted_by_me> ." On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Christian Joudrey <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > I have a bizarre issue with status/user_timeline. > > When output is set to RSS, retweets appear in the output: > > i.e. http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/27691615.rss > > However, if you set the output to JSON, retweets disapear: > > http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/27691615.json > > Is this a known issue with the API? > > Best regards, > > Christian > -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
