Native retweets are a new type of tweet, and do not show up as mentions. You can cobble together an approximation using search, retweets_of_me, and retweets that will get close, but I don't think you can be 100% sure to catch all of them.
-- ivey On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 5:35 PM, gstarsf <gpalre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey guys, > We are getting ready to launch an application that relies > predominantly on the mentions api. The idea is that anytime someone > mentions our username in the form of @username, we get that > information and process it in our service. > > The new retweet functionality somehow hides the retweets from the > mentions api. This doesn't make sense, and I was wondering if others > are having this problem? Is there a way to make sure the retweets are > coming through the mentions api?? > > Thanks. >
