Twitter streaming api - how to read retweets

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Hey. I successfully installed Twitter Streaming API. I can read statuses but don't know exactly how to distinguish between tweets and retweets.

http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_entities

So my questions are - how do you know that a is a tweet/retweet - how can I get the list of user ids that have retweeted the original tweet

Thx.

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jsontwitterentities
I think, that if retweeted_status key exists then this is a retweet. Am I right? But why is retweeted key always false? - xpepermint
refer stackoverflow.com/questions/5710303/… - N.B.K

3 Answers

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{ "retweeted": true } is only the case if user logged into the streaming API did the retweeting.

See http://blog.programmableweb.com/2010/08/30/twitter-api-adds-retweet-count-and-more/

0
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If you are looking for particular RTs lets say from Jack and Paul. Jut track "RT @Jack" and "RT @Paul".

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In the JSON you get back from the API, you'll get data like this:

{
    "retweeted":false,
    "text":"Testing streaming api",
    "geo":{...}
}

Simply get the value of retweeted and you have your answer.