Marcel, This is good news! It will allow us to start development of retweet support in our client applications / web-sites, and do backward compatibility testing.
Would it be possible, if it has not already been done, for twitter to create a couple of accounts that include some retweets so we can also do forward compatibility testing? It doesn't have to be much, just a half-dozen or so nonsense status updates in each account, some retweeted, some not. When you do this, please be sure to include an example of a status update that is retweeted by more than one other account. I, and others, still have questions, so far unanswered, about what the results will look like in this case, and other similar cases. Thanks in advance, Jim Renkel -----Original Message----- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Marcel Molina Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 18:23 To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com; twitter-api-annou...@googlegroups.com Subject: [twitter-dev] [ANN] statuses/home_timeline resource now available (though it doesn't include retweets yet) We mentioned in our early preview email about the retweet API (http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/threa d/1e07e332ec3d449d) that the statuses/friends_timeline resource wasn't going to include retweets for backwards compatibility so we don't break clients that aren't planning to add retweet support. The upgrade path is entirely opt-in. To that end we're adding a statuses/home_timeline resource that is in all ways identical to statuses/friends_timeline except the home_timeline resource *will* include retweets as demonstrated in the example payload in the documentation at http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-home_time line. The statuses/home_timeline resource is now available though it won't include any retweets until the retweeting feature is fully launched. To be clear, until the full retweet launch, statuses/home_timeline will be 100% identical to statuses/friends_timeline and will *not* include retweets. We wanted to make the resource available early though so that clients who will be incorporating retweets into their timelines can update the resource that they reference and have requests succeed. When the full retweet launch happens, retweets will start to appear in statuses/home_timeline as per the documentation. -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/noradio
