I think you have the wrong idea of what include_rts does. Include_rts is
designed to include native retweets in timelines where default inclusion
would break. For example /statuses/user_timeline expects all tweets to be
from a user A. But if that user A has retweeted user B then user Bs tweets
can be included user As user_timeline with include_rts. Include_rts has no
effect on /statuses/mentions because the original tweet is already included
due to the fact it is a mention.

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On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 21:00, Adam Duke <adam.v.d...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've seen the same behavior with the include_rts parameter. I have
> tried passing the values 'true', 't', and '1' with no success.
>
> On Feb 8, 7:15 pm, Anil Chawla <ani...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
>
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