Support Twitter/StatusNet native retweeting from client

[Greg Grossmeier]

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?"

[Kai Mast (kai-mast)]

Will this be in 3.0? Seems to me like one of the big missing features in gwibber.

[Michael Stevens (mstevens-etla-deactivatedaccount)]

I also wish for this.

[TheCaméléon (pictuga)]

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

[Matthew Smith (indigojo)]

This feature is really important. Right now, new-style retweets show like old-style ones, with the last few characters (i.e. those displaced by the "RT @JoeBloggs" at the beginning) missing, which is often a bit of a URL. Gwibber is the last major Twitter client not to implement this.