> > > > There are several threads looking for a way to get built-in retweets > > > > via teh user_timeline as was available before with organic (i.e., > > > > "RT ...") _tweets. > > > > Has there been any decision made on what will be done here? _ Built-in > > > > retweets are invisible to the user_timeline which is a loss of > > > > functionality. > > > > Simply including the option of retweets=true should solve the backwards > > compatibility option. > > I don't see why we even need it to be backwards compatible as > technically it already is surely? > The home_timeline <status>'s are the actual retweet, to make it new > style retweet compatible you need to explicitly handle the retweeted > status nodes.
Quite right, if people were all using proper JSON parsers. However, I am personally aware of some applications that simply hand-grep through the status list, which is horribly kludgey but does work. I am also sure that Twitter is also aware of them, and unexpected fields probably would break them, so I can see the logic in not doing this by default. I do of course strongly believe it should be offered to apps that want them, naturally. -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. -- Ogden Nash ----------------
