Gwibber

Support Twitter/StatusNet native retweeting from client

Bug #544495 reported by Greg Grossmeier
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This bug affects 24 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Gwibber
Fix Released
Wishlist
Unassigned
Gwibber 3.1.2
gwibber (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Unassigned

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?"

Related branches

lp://staging/~matthew-j-singleton/gwibber/new-retweets
Rejected for merging into lp://staging/gwibber
Ken VanDine: Disapprove
Diff: 523 lines (+460/-0) (has conflicts)
3 files modified
gwibber/microblog/identica.py.OTHER (+211/-0)
gwibber/microblog/twitter.py.OTHER (+210/-0)
ui/templates/base.mako (+39/-0)
Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier)
Changed in gwibber:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
summary: - Support twitter/identi.ca native retweeting from client
+ Support Twitter/StatusNet native retweeting from client
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
Matt Singleton (matthew-j-singleton)
Changed in gwibber:
assignee: nobody → Matt Singleton (matthew-j-singleton)
Revision history for this message
Kai Mast (kai-mast) wrote :

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

Revision history for this message
Michael Stevens (mstevens-etla-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I also wish for this.

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TheCaméléon (pictuga) wrote :

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

Revision history for this message
Matthew Smith (indigojo) wrote :

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.

Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)
Changed in gwibber:
assignee: Matt Singleton (matthew-j-singleton) → nobody
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
milestone: none → 3.1.2
Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)
Changed in gwibber:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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