Should appear as a new tweet with the time of the retweet, not the original tweet creation time. That assumes though that no one else has retweeted it to you yet. If someone else has then this additional retweet won't appear in your timelines except for the statuses/retweets/id resource that lists up to 100 retweets for a given tweet. Duplicates are collapsed out of the other timelines.
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Tim Haines <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > I'm wondering if anyone can clarify. > The services I run often shown tweets that are several months old, and offer > the RT button next to them. If someone clicks to RT the tweet, how does the > tweet get presented to people that aren't following the original tweeter? > Is it placed at the top of the timeline appearing as a new tweet, or is it > placed at the time the original tweet was tweeted? i.e. months ago, so > likely to never be seen? > If it would be placed months ago, it makes RT pointless for older tweets, in > which case I'll switch to 'classic mode' RT's. > Tim. -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/noradio
