gwibber should display/create retweets correctly (not '♺')
Bug #852414 reported by
LiohMoeller
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Gwibber |
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Bug Description
gwibber currently just adds a ♺ sign to retweets, instead of marking them as retweeted. The latter will display them correclty in twitters web ui (a green retweet symbol in the upper left corner of the tweet) and in other clients like the Android twitter client (which is even not able to display the ♺ correctly btw).
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If I may just expand on this: I don't know if gwibber is trying to be clever or cute, but it's approach to retweets loses information and frustrates your followers.
Twitter has a special notion of a 'retweet' which is different from a regular tweet. Something someone else writes is retweeted by you, which puts their tweet in your follower's streams. That is, the tweet's author is still the same, the date of the tweet is still the same, and - crucially - if your follower is also following that author, they don't see the tweet TWICE. (or more times, if more people retweet it).
Gwibber merely copies the text, prepending '♺ @<original user>'. This loses the correct author and date information, causes duplication and frustration in timelines, and potentially truncates the original message, needlessly.