Twitter API - retweet text modification

Question

Does anyone know whether it is possible to append additional text onto a retweet using the Twitter API? What I want to achieve is to be able to take @bob Hello Sally! and retweet it as @mike RT @bob Hello Sally! Yo Bob, why the desperation?

The API doc seems to indicate that it is not possible, but that seems incredibly short sighted. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-retweet

Answer 1

If you append text it is a sort of unofficial retweet, it is like copy and pasting on the twitter website and adding RT. If you use the API method it is like if you hit the retweet button on the twitter website. You cannot append text using the API method.

So the way you have to do it is just send out a normal tweet with [your text RT @username: retweet text]