- Image via Wikipedia
Apparently, I’ve gotten the beta for Twitter’s new Retweet feature, so I thought I’d use this moment to rant a little bit about the Twitter Retweet API.
The Retweet API is actually a set of five API functions, and, as per Twitter’s horrible documentation habit, they’re spread across one namespace (“statuses”) but two different classes: “timeline methods” and “status methods.”
![Twitters ReTweet functionality](https://i0.wp.com/farm3.staticflickr.com/2558/4115852482_b08a3c28a0_t.jpg?resize=1000%2C627&ssl=1)
I’m not sure how I have the retweet beta UI, but traditional retweets aren’t reformatted automatically for me (the first entry is a retweet). *sigh*
Continue reading about Things that annoy me about retweet after the jump