Excellent news Marcel, and also re-tweet support now submitted to Apple in my App too :)
On Nov 20, 1:16 am, Marcel Molina <mar...@twitter.com> wrote: > Back in August we announced plans to release the Retweet feature along with > an API to publish and consume retweets. Over the last few months we've been > gradually opening up the feature to more users as we performance test and > refine it. You can see some of the original announcement emails around > retweets > here:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thr...http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thr...http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thr...http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thr... > > Today we've launched the feature to 100% of users. You can now consume > retweets via the /statuses/home_timeline resource, as well as all the > specialized retweet timelines. For backwards compatibility reasons we're > stripping retweets out of the friends_timeline resource as well as the > user_timeline resource. If you plan on implementing support for consuming > retweets from timelines, switch all instances of /statuses/friends_timeline > to /statuses/home_timeline. > > All the relevant retweet documentation can be found > here:http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-retweethttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-home_t...http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-retwee...http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-retwee...http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-retwee...http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-retweets > > To those implementing this feature in your clients, I'd suggest taking some > UI cues from what we've done on > Twitter.com:http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/differentiating-retweets.png > > Notice how the retweet by @ablegrape of @wblakegray's tweet is clearly > differentiated from the surrounding tweets with a distinctive retweet icon > and the "Retweeted by" label along the bottom. This is just one way of doing > it. Use whatever interface you think makes sense. What's important is > communicating to your users that the tweet they are seeing was shared with > them by someone they follow so they don't get confused by seeing tweets in > their timeline from people they aren't following. > > We're just getting started with the retweet feature but we're happy with > this initial v1 we pushed out. We're really looking forward to seeing how > everyone works with this new API. > > -- > Marcel Molina > Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio
