Question about retweet

[Gavin]

What's the id stands for? The status.id of the tweet?
Could you write an example for retweet?

Thanks

[Ryan McGrath]

Ah, yeah, check out the example below...

Basically, every individual tweet has an ID associated with it, and
you can get them back any number of ways - e.g, if you pull down a
feed, you'll have a tweet's ID. Same goes for pulling down user data,
etc (you'll have the ID for their most recent).

That said, this might help...

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import twython

twitter = twython.setup("username", "password")

homeTimeline = twitter.getHomeTimeline()

# Loop through our results, find one that contains "Firefox", reTweet
it
for tweet in homeTimeline:
if "Firefox" in tweet["text"]:
twitter.reTweet(tweet["id"])

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Since Google Groups will inevitably kill the formatting there, you can
check out that code (with highlighting and such) on GitHub:
http://gist.github.com/246528

- Ryan