display twitter profile picture of the account that is being re-tweeted, not the account that is doing the retweeting

I had the same issue when using the results provided through Views, however I found by adding the following code I managed to solve the problem, perhaps this could be included

    // Replace retweet data
    if (preg_match('/^RT\s@(\w+)\:\s/', $status->text, $matches)) {
      module_load_include('inc', 'twitter');
      $twitter = twitter_connect();

      $status->text = str_replace($matches[0], '', $status->text);
      $author = $twitter->users_show($matches[1]);
    }

This code goes in twitter_views_field_handlers.inc after

    // Load tweet and author.
    $status = twitter_status_load($values->twitter_id);
    $author = twitter_account_load($status->screen_name);

Created a patch. Only works when a 'formatted tweet'-field is being rendered with Views.
Sorry, attachment name of the patch should have been "twitter-avatar-being-retweeted-2022717-7739815.patch"

Thanks for the patch. Please remember to change the status to "needs review" when you do upload a patch, otherwise people might not see it.

An alternate approach is to handle it in a custom module with something like:

function mymodule_views_data_alter(&$data) {
  if (isset($data['twitter'])) {
    $data['twitter']['formatted_tweet_retweet'] = array(
      'title' => t('Formatted tweet with retweets'),
      'help' => t('Renders a tweet as it is shown at Twitter.com.'),
      'field' => array(
        'handler' => 'mymodule_twitter_views_handler_field_formatted_tweet',
      ),
    );
  }
}


class mymodule_twitter_views_handler_field_formatted_tweet extends views_handler_field {
  function query() {}

  function render($values) {
    drupal_add_js('//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js', 'external');
    drupal_add_css(drupal_get_path('module', 'twitter') . '/twitter.css');
    module_load_include('inc', 'twitter');

    // Load tweet and author.
    $status = twitter_status_load($values->twitter_id);
    $author = twitter_account_load($status->screen_name, FALSE);

    if (preg_match('/^RT\s@(\w+)\:\s/', $status->text, $matches)) {
      module_load_include('inc', 'twitter');
      $twitter = twitter_connect(NULL, TRUE, FALSE);

      $status->text = str_replace($matches[0], '', $status->text);
      $author = $twitter->users_show($matches[1]);
    }

    // Render the tweet.
    return theme('twitter_status', array(
      'status' => $status,
      'author' => $author,
      'reply' => t('Reply'),
      'retweet' => t('Retweet'),
      'favorite' => t('Favorite'),
    ));
  }
}

That class is based on the twitter_views_handler_field_formatted_tweet class and comment #1

NOTE: you must have an account configure as global at admin/config/services/twitter

I know the solution at Comment #1 is a hack but it did work (at least it did on previous releases of Twitter). But it doesn't work on 7.x-5.11 or 7.x-6.2. I also tried the custom module solution but I can't seem to get that working with the current releases either.

Anybody got any other ideas? Really would like to solve this issue.

Thanks

F

I used the previous solutions but instead wanted to use the Profile image field so I modified them a bit. Also make sure one twitter account on your page has the "General" option selected at the admin/config/services/twitter options page.

function mymodule_views_data_alter(&$data) {
  if (isset($data['twitter_account'])) {
    $data['twitter_account']['profile_image_url'] = array(
      'title' => t('Profile image'),
      'help' => t(' The image used by the Twitter account.'),
      'field' => array(
         'handler' => 'mymodule_twitter_views_handler_field_profile_image',
      ),
    );
  }
}
 
class mymodule_twitter_views_handler_field_profile_image extends views_handler_field {
  function render($values) {
    if (preg_match('/^RT\s@(\w+)\:\s/', $values->twitter_text, $matches)) {
      module_load_include('inc', 'twitter');
      $twitter = twitter_connect(NULL, TRUE, FALSE);
      if ($twitter) {
        $status->text = str_replace($matches[0], '', $status->text);
        $author = $twitter->users_show($matches[1]);
        $value = $author->profile_image_url;
      }
      else {
        $value = $values->{$this->field_alias};
      }
    }
    else {
      $value = $values->{$this->field_alias};
    }
    $output = theme('image', array('path' => $value, 'width' => 48, 'height' => 48));
 
    // Convert to a protocol-relative URL so that the same image tag will work
    // regardless of whether the page is loaded via HTTP or HTTPS.
    return str_replace('http:', '', $output);
  }
}

Patch from #2 re-rolled against 7.x-5.x-dev

#8 works nicely

Unfortunately the previous patch didn't fully work.
It does work for RT of website defined accounts, not for other non-defined accounts.
I'm attaching a patch, almost the same as #8 but forcing a twitter authentication. Since this will just load a twitter account information for the RT, this doesn't seem to pose a security issue.

Commited both to 7.5 and 7.6 dev branches.