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Asked: 2026-05-15T02:59:15+00:00

I studied the Twitter API Documentation today. Only find that we could use Twitter

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I studied the Twitter API Documentation today. Only find that we could use “Twitter REST API Method: statuses user_timeline” to acquire statuses of a certain user. Retweets are stripped out of the user_timeline for backwards compatibility reasons. If I want retweets included, API Documentation recommend “statuses retweeted_by_me”, but retweeted_by_me cannot return the retweets by other users.

I think maybe we can analyse the twitter webpage of a certain user to get his retweets. However is there any elegant way to crawl retweets of a certain user?

Thanks in advance!

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  1. Editorial Team

    This was addressed recently by the Twitter devs. You can now add a include_rts=true to your call to user_timeline. See the full discussion here: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/7a4be385ff549ed0

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