jnunemaker/twitter — Issue #215: Issue with entities when status is retweeted
Author: totaloncue
Created: 2011-12-03 10:07:31+00:00
State: open

I'm having a problem accessing entities when retrieving retweeted statuses through a user timeline call.

Twitter seems to be misreporting entities on retweets.
e.g. on Status id 142857507214344192, which is a retweet of id 142854626885107712, I see that the url entities displayed in the first tweet are different than those in the original tweet.

I tried to work around this by accessing the entities values of the 'retweeted_status' but cannot find this when I retrieve a tweet using a timeline call i.e. Twitter.user_timeline('ImZaheer')

However, if I use the Twitter.status() method with the first id, I can see that the 'retweeted_status' attribute includes an entities key.

Is it possible to add the entities key to the 'retweeted_status' attribute when doing a Twitter.user_timeline() call?

Thanks,
Gautam