Heads Up: retweet_count to be uncapped beginning January 31st, 2012 Hi Developers, Beginning January 31st, 2012 the Twitter REST API will begin uncapping the retweet_count field on tweet objects returned on tweet-bearing methods such as GET statuses/show/:id, GET statuses/home_timeline, and GET statuses/user_timeline. Instead of having a string representation take the place of an integer when the