It's been a while but I want to follow up on this because we still have the issue. Is anyone able to pull "native" retweets when calling the "statuses/mentions" endpoint?
An indication that "includes_rts" either works for you or doesn't work would be great. Thanks, -Anil On Dec 14 2010, 11:44 am, Anil Chawla <ani...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've also been facing this issue for quite a long time. I've told > myself that this can't be a problem with the API (since nobody else is > complaining) but I can't see what is wrong on our end. For example, I > have the following status that was retweeted a few times: > > http://twitter.com/#!/anilchawla/status/14437959797313536 > > This is the request URL that is generated when I request my mentions > using count=200, include_rts=true, and since_id = 13978625736970241 > (OAuth tokens > omitted):https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/mentions.json?count=200&include_rt... > > The four mentions of the above status are not present in the response > even though those retweets and the original status have an ID greater > than since_id. Omitting "count" and "since_id" does not make a > difference. As a work-around, we have to pull both statuses/mentions > and statuses/retweets_of_me and merge them together. It's hard to > believe that everyone else has been doing the same and ignoring this > API parameter. Any idea what the issue is? > > -Anil -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
