The retweet api hasn't been launched yet (hence the coming soon in the
documentation)
On Oct 2, 8:36 am, Coderanger d...@coderanger.com wrote:
Is the new retweet posting api not working, I seem to just get Not
Found error on any attempt to retweet a status:
curl -u user:pass --http-request
Thought that meant publicly, but as platform developers you could
actually implement, test and use it. Seems strange to even bother
publishing it if you cant use it, if thats the case then does anyone
know when its going to actually happen as its been coming soon since
beginning of August?
Actually home_timeline is also coming soon but that works, so your
comment seems a bit incorrect.
Except home_timeline doesn't contain the re-tweet stuff yet, it's just
a copy of friends_timeline at the moment, but it just allows us to
switch to use the new url ready so technically home_timeline is still
coming soon.
How I test is take a copy of the sample XML in the docs and use that
to
Actually I think it is great that Twitter published these retweet APIs
even only as placeholders for the real thing. It communicates what the
feature will look like well in advance of its release, which lets you
plan its implementation.
Here is a vote for publishing the lists APIs well in
I asked this, and similar but more detailed questions, in my Aug 18,
7:35 pm post to this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/1e07e332ec3d449d/2d10a6a22e55133e?lnk=gstq=ReTweet+API#2d10a6a22e55133e
but, unfortunately, have not yet received an
I'd also like to know this. The examples on the twitter API page all
just show one retweet_details section, this would mean that if
multiple of your friends to retwee the same status, it will be added
multiple times to the home timeline.
this way, there is also no problem wiht tracking retweets