ytorg/Yotter

Retweets not correctly timed

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#101 opened on Oct 11, 2020

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Description

Hi,

I noticed that retweets appears in the timeline on the date the tweet itself has been written.

This tweet has been retweeted by Elon Musk after this one but appears before in yotter's timeline because it has been posted before.

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Tech stack
python
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backend
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3
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1-3 hours
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stale
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mostly clear
Prerequisites
Basic PythonUnderstanding of Twitter API
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45
Research direction
Investigate the timeline generation logic in the Yotter backend. The issue is that retweets use the original tweet's timestamp instead of the retweet time. Check the data fetching and sorting functions in the main application code (likely in Python files handling Twitter API responses). Look for how the timestamp is extracted and used for ordering. Ensure that when a retweet is displayed, the retweet timestamp is used instead of the original tweet's timestamp.
Retweets not correctly timed · ytorg/Yotter#101 | Good First Issue