I noticed recently that the new ReTweet feature at Twitter breaks the Atom feeds currently pushed out by Twitter. Kind of mind-boggling to me that Twitter would push forward a new feature set without worrying about its affects on something so basic as the user timeline feeds. (FYI this is how Twitter has broken user feeds: retweets get "RT @" prepended to every tweet AND tweet texts are truncated at 140 characters. People using the ReTweet feature in a compatible environment (like Twitter.com or an ap that has incorporated the new APIs) have no clue that their messages will get truncated in the feed. In fact, Twitter has touted the fact that you don't need to edit RTs anymore to keep them under 140 as a major benefit of the new functionality. Fail!).

So my question is... What the affects of the new Twitter API additions on the Twitter module?

Shai

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abraham commented

The new retweet feature should not effect the Drupal module as Twitter excludes retweets from the existing timeline and instead includes them in an additional API method they included.

In general though the Twitter API is constantly evolving and could break the Twitter module with little notice.

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steinmb commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)