Hey Mike, By default the user_timeline doesn't return retweets but you'll see in Taylor's example he added the querystring parameter include_rts=true. If you do that retweets are included so the call to statuses/retweeted_by_me is not required.
Hope that helps, @themattharris On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Mike <under619ta...@gmail.com> wrote: > @Taylor: > > statuses/user_timeline does not return retweets and will return blank > if their last status was a retweet. > To get retweets you need to use statuses/retweeted_by_me, which does > require Authentication. > > On Sep 17, 3:35 pm, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> > wrote: >> Hi Mike, >> >> If your intention is to just fetch the tweets you author and the retweets >> you create, you can make an unauthenticated request to something along the >> lines of : >> >> GEThttp://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.atom?screen_name=epis... >> >> Without using OAuth, you can make a call such as this up to 150 times a day >> from a single IP address. If you prefer RSS to ATOM, just change the >> extension to .rss (or .json, or .xml). Replace the screen_name value with >> your own screen name. >> >> Thanks, >> Taylor >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Mike <mikemcl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hello all, >> >> > I am pulling my hair out trying to find an answer to this problem and >> > what seems like a simple problem really isn't turning out to have a >> > simple answer. >> >> > All I want to do is list the most recent tweets and retweets in my >> > account on my website. I used to do this easily using PHP and cURL >> > but that feature has been broken since Twitter moved to oAuth. Now I >> > want to duplicate this functionality but I just cannot seem to >> > understand how to do it. All of the tutorials I've read are for >> > creating apps with sign ins and updating your accounts, but all I want >> > is the dang FEED - no updating status, no direct messages, just my >> > stream. >> >> > Can someone please help me? I am frantic. >> >> > Thanks, >> >> > Mike >> >> > -- >> > Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc >> > API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi >> > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: >> >http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list >> > Change your membership to this group: >> >http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en > -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
