Pulling Retweets using Twitter user_timeline in JS

Question

I'm currently using the script..

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/username.json?callback=twitterCallback2&count=1

.. to pull the most recent Tweet for a number of users to display on my website. However, I've ran into the problem that the JSON format doesn't display Retweets. I've read from this link that you must use "retweeted_by_me" to also display Retweets by I'm not quite sure how I would merge that with my current script.

Answer 1

Change response mode to rss. This will resolve the issue. It might require change in the display code depending on your scripting language though.

Answer 2

If you read the GET statuses/user_timeline documentation you fill find that by adding a parameter of include_rts set to true it will include retweets.

Answer 3

EDIT : As of Twitter API Version 1.1, use the following format. (Needs Authenticaton)

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=nikhilkuruvilla&include_rts=true

The updated documentation can be found here

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/user_timeline

[UPDATE] The following methods apply to Twitter API Version 1 and is Deprecated now.

Use the new twitter API and add include_rts=true Eg: http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=nikhilkuruvilla&include_rts=true

Full documentation can be found here : http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/user_timeline