Oh, wow. Thanks for pointing that out! I can't believe I never seen
that parameter! Should be a nice fix for my current "This is usually
my current Twitter status, but my last post may be a retweet and the
feed does not support retweets :(" message on my personal site. :P
Haha.

Thanks a lot man!

On Sep 17, 5:58 pm, Matt Harris <thematthar...@twitter.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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> 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
>
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