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I've been trying to find a way using Twitter Advanced Search to return retweets made by a certain user. I'm trying to use a 3rd party tool called Twools to pull just retweets using a search. I've tried using this query, but it doesn't seem to return any retweets.
from:username include:retweets
I'm not sure such a thing exists, but I'd love if there were something like
from:username onlyinclude:retweets
Is there any secret search syntax that might be usable?
As @AlexVong noted in the comments, you can find the new referential retweets by using:
from:username include:nativeretweets filter:nativeretweets
Previously:
It seems like the syntax for showing all the retweets by a user is supposed to be:
from:username include:retweets filter:retweets
However, it seems all of this search syntax is broken in "modern" Twitter, where retweets are treated as a reference to the original tweet, rather than a separate "RT @originaluser stuff and things" tweet from the retweeter. filter:retweets picks up any tweet that happens to contain the word "RT" anywhere in the tweet but not actual retweets anymore.
from:username include:nativeretweets filter:nativeretweets seems to display recent retweets but not older retweets. Does anyone know of a way to display all retweets of a user?
Mar 18, 2019 at 19:30
include:nativeretweets please if you don't mind sharing?
Feb 22, 2020 at 18:40