I found the answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4674240/how-do-i-format-a-retweet-request-through-the-abraham-twitteroauth-php-class
Funny that the "try it" example in the dev.twitter.com/doc page made the same mistake I did and delivers the same error. http://dev.twitter.com/doc/post/statuses/retweet/:id On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Adam Green <140...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to build some retweeting code and am unable to get / > statuses/retweet to work. I keep getting an error of: > {"request":"\/1\/statuses\/retweet.json","error":"Not found"} > > I thought I may have been doing something incorrect, even though I > used exactly the same code format that I use for other OAuth REST > calls that worked correctly, such as statuses/destroy. > > I then tried the API console example in the API docs, and got the same > error, and this was with the canned arguments, so it couldn't be my > code. > > So I'm wondering if there is some documentation error and this API > call has changed. The fact that the doc page incorrectly says > authentication isn't needed doesn't give me a lot of confidence as > well. > > Can someone tell me what API call they use to do a retweet? > > -- > 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 > -- Adam Green Twitter API Consultant and Analyst http://140dev.com, @140dev http://2012twit.com, @2012twit 781-879-2960 -- 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
