# Twitter plugin retweeted is always false

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/twitter-plugin-retweeted-is-always-false/51237>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [May 29, 2016, 2:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/twitter-plugin-retweeted-is-always-false/51237 "2016-05-29T02:40:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Gautam\_S\_Thakur](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gautam_s_thakur/32/5156_2.png) [@Gautam\_S\_Thakur](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gautam_S_Thakur)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2016, 2:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/twitter-plugin-retweeted-is-always-false/51237/1 "2016-05-29T02:40:13Z")

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Trying Twitter plugin for Logstash. I am wondering why the plugin is unable to capture retweets? The mapping value for retweeted Twitter is always false --- "\> retweeted": false

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2016, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/twitter-plugin-retweeted-is-always-false/51237/2 "2016-05-29T12:05:08Z")

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AFAICT the plugin just propagates the retweet value provided by the Twitter library so it doesn't look like a bug in the plugin. This was reported as a GitHub issue a while back:

> <https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-input-twitter/issues/26>

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/twitter-plugin-retweeted-is-always-false/51237/3 "2017-07-06T04:55:42Z")

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