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Asked: 2026-05-27T05:56:55+00:00

Can someone explain to me in, in REST terms, Twitter’s design decision with the

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Can someone explain to me in, in REST terms, Twitter’s design decision with the parameter placement in these two calls? It seems that the :id placement is inconsistent and arbitrary (although clearly this was deliberate). 

GET statuses/:id/retweeted_by
Show user objects of up to 100 members who retweeted the status.

GET statuses/retweets/:id
Returns up to 100 of the first retweets of a given tweet.

There are other similar examples throughout their API (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api), so I’m definitely missing something.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I ended up checking with a friend at Twitter, who says:

    “I just talked with the guy who originally wrote those two API
    endpoints, and he doesn’t remember why. To answer your question,
    though, there probably isn’t a good RESTful reason for that design.”

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