Downloading tweets with twitteR in R, some tweets are cut short, any way to get full tweets?

Question

I am using twitteR package for R to download tweets from particular timelines, including retweets. The thing is, some retweets are cut short.

For example, I am downloading Donald Trump's tweets and he has retweeted this tweet: https://twitter.com/SecretarySonny/status/906666266320146432

I get this when downloading from Trump's timeline:
"RT @SecretarySonny: Serious @Cabinet meeting today, called by @POTUS at Camp David. Reports on #Irma's track, potential impact, fed & state…"

When the full text is:
"Serious @Cabinet meeting today, called by @POTUS at Camp David. Reports on #Irma's track, potential impact, fed & state preparedness."

It seems that the tweets are cut short by the number of characters required to spell name of the original Twitter account (SecretarySonny in this case).

Is there any way I could get the full retweets? I checked twitteR documentation but I was not able to find anything that could help.

Andy Piper Andy Piper · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-12T10:41:59

You need to include the ?tweet_mode=extended parameter when you call the Twitter API. This is covered in the extended Tweets documentation on Twitter's developer site. What code are you currently using?

Downloading tweets with twitteR in R, some tweets are cut short, any way to get full tweets?

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