Retweet API launched to 100% of users
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Marcel Molina
Nov 19, 2009, 8:16:48 PM11/19/09
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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:
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:
To those implementing this feature in your clients, I'd suggest taking some UI cues from what we've done on Twitter.com:
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 Team
http://twitter.com/noradio
Rich
Nov 20, 2009, 2:27:23 AM11/20/09
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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...
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
>
> 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
> 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.
>
hansamann
Nov 27, 2009, 3:06:56 AM11/27/09
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I am working with Twitter4J which should have support for the latest
retweet format in the current Snapshot. Somehow I cannot get the
retweetedStatus object, it returns null, so I am wondering if retweets
are also part of the streaming API which I am using. I am using the
filter stream and would like to detect retweeted messages in this
stream.
Based on the last information form Twitter this should be possible and
the retweetedStatus info should be part of the filter stream statuses.
Is this still correct?
Cheers
Sven
On Nov 19, 5:16 pm, 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...
retweet format in the current Snapshot. Somehow I cannot get the
retweetedStatus object, it returns null, so I am wondering if retweets
are also part of the streaming API which I am using. I am using the
filter stream and would like to detect retweeted messages in this
stream.
Based on the last information form Twitter this should be possible and
the retweetedStatus info should be part of the filter stream statuses.
Is this still correct?
Cheers
Sven
On Nov 19, 5:16 pm, 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
>
> 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
> 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.
>
Yusuke
Nov 27, 2009, 5:37:26 AM11/27/09
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Hi,
It can be Twitter4J side's problem.
I'll take a look at it later.
Cheers,
Yusuke
On 11月27日, 午後5:06, hansamann <sven.hai...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I am working with Twitter4J which should have support for the latest
> retweet format in the current Snapshot. Somehow I cannot get the
> retweetedStatus object, it returns null, so I am wondering if retweets
> are also part of the streaming API which I am using. I am using the
> filter stream and would like to detect retweeted messages in this
> stream.
>
> Based on the last information form Twitter this should be possible and
> the retweetedStatus info should be part of the filter stream statuses.
> Is this still correct?
>
> Cheers
> Sven
>
> On Nov 19, 5:16 pm, 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......
It can be Twitter4J side's problem.
I'll take a look at it later.
Cheers,
Yusuke
On 11月27日, 午後5:06, hansamann <sven.hai...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I am working with Twitter4J which should have support for the latest
> retweet format in the current Snapshot. Somehow I cannot get the
> retweetedStatus object, it returns null, so I am wondering if retweets
> are also part of the streaming API which I am using. I am using the
> filter stream and would like to detect retweeted messages in this
> stream.
>
> Based on the last information form Twitter this should be possible and
> the retweetedStatus info should be part of the filter stream statuses.
> Is this still correct?
>
> Cheers
> Sven
>
> On Nov 19, 5:16 pm, 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
>
> > 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-retwee...
> > 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.
>
Mark McBride
Nov 27, 2009, 11:49:55 AM11/27/09
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The retweets should also be available in the streaming API.
---Mark
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