Retweet is not a top level feature for Twitter. People have suggestions for formats though [1]. A cleaver regex should help you parse if a tweet is a retweet.
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en#complete=1&hl=en&q=retweet+format&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&fp=LH9toxtiWpk Thanks, Doug On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Scott Haneda <talkli...@newgeo.com> wrote: > > Is RT an official Twitter funtion or a community invented convention? > > If I have a timeline loaded what is the best way to determine the number of > retweets? There seem to be many formats in which RT is done. > > -- > Scott > Iphone says hello. >
