<retweeted> and <favorited> is always set to <false> in GET search/tweets

[asharpvan]

Hi All,

I think this question may have been asked around several times before this, but I havent come across a solution as of yet. Hence asking again!

Im making an iPhone app which allows my authenticated users to either reply, retweet and favorite a tweet.

My retweets and favorites are reflected on website just as expected and everything works fine, until I run the GET search/tweets API again. When I dig deep into the API response of the tweet which was manipulated by me. I can see that the <favorite_count> and the <retweet_count> are being updated as expected. But strangely the and (so called Perspectival) fields are not.

Yes I am authenticating the user with request, and Im pretty sure the authentication process is correct cause if it wasn’t I wouldn’t be able to see the tweets at all.

Could there be an explanation for this? Is this a bug? Or am I just looking at it the wrong way

[asharpvan]

Some important words went missing hence im copy pasting the query again :

I think this question may have been asked around several times before this, but I havent come across a solution as of yet. Hence asking again!

Im making an iPhone app which allows my authenticated users to either reply, retweet and favorite a tweet.

My retweets and favorites are reflected on website just as expected and everything works fine, until I run the GET search/tweets API again. When I dig deep into the API response of the tweet which was manipulated by me. I can see that the favorite_count and the retweet_count are being updated as expected. But strangely the favorited and the retweeted (so called Perspectival) fields are not.

Yes I am authenticating the user with request, and Im pretty sure the authentication process is correct cause if it wasn’t I wouldn’t be able to see the tweets at all.

Could there be an explanation for this? Is this a bug? Or am I just looking at it the wrong way

[asharpvan]

Hmmm something i came across https://dev.twitter.com/issues/1233

[episod]

Perspectival attributes in Tweets are generally best sourced from the canonical source (statuses/show, favorites/list, statuses/user_timeline) rather than inline in a collection – they aren’t always accurate even when they surface around the service – several layers of cache based on different criteria means that sometimes the system “forgets” the current user has favorited or retweeted a tweet, especially if it happened in non-recent past.

search/tweets historically was a different kind of API that never considered the user’s role in the act of searching, making such fields moot. There may come a day where the Search API takes the authenticating user into account and when technically capable, include accurate perspectival attributes such as these booleans.

[asharpvan]

Hmmm that makes sense now. Thanks for the followup mate!