I second this, it'd be good to emulate the behaviour with real re- tweets in there
On Sep 3, 7:45 pm, "Jim Renkel" <james.ren...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > athttp://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 Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio
