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[Bug 544495] Re: Support Twitter/StatusNet native retweeting from client

 

https://gist.github.com/245312/2346fed4cff7138061ab933940f6a223cac76ca8
I found this... it might be useful

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Title:
  Support Twitter/StatusNet native retweeting from client

Status in Gwibber:
  Triaged
Status in “gwibber” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Twitter supports this native retweeting functionality through the API:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-statuses-retweet

All that is needed is the original tweet's unique ID number.

identi.ca/status.net does the same, except make
http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/retweet/25686488.xml
look like
http://identi.ca/api/statuses/retweet/25686488.xml
(that is not explicitly called out at http://status.net/wiki/Twitter-compatible_API but I just did it myself using curl.

This could probably be a setting in preferences (ugh, yet another?): "Use native retweeting/repeating functionality when available?"