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I'm using twitter gem as a library to work with twitter api. I've noticed a weird issue with getting retweets for the tweet. Whenever I make a call I get only retweets from my mutual connections.
So, if someone retweets my post I'll never be able to get that retweet using proper api call. However, search function might be a solution for this. But It's not suitable for all cases.

Anyone had the same problem with twitter ? Any advice or tips ?:)

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The twitter API allows for retweets of me, which seems to be what you want. I haven't used the twitter gem, but that API method is listed in the docs.

Mark Thomas
It's not exactly what I need. I need that http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/retweets/:id , so I'll be able to retrieve all retweets for each post in my timeline. But, it's no working as it's documented on twitter's docs.
msarvar
Can you manually retrieve the retweets via the API?
Mark Thomas