how does the retweet mechanism work on twitter?

dieri1990

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I'm creating similar thing to twitter retweet function!This is my database table for tweets (status messages):\[code\]ID || USER_ID || TWEET || RETWEET_ID || RETWEET_NAME || DATE\[/code\]What I'm trying to find out is, if the logged in user retweets something, when they refresh the page I don't want them to see the retweet button (because obviously they have retweeted it). I'm more concerned with the app logic; it's driving me crazy.p.s. a user's timeline is queried using a while loop array, so it has to distinguish between a normal tweet, and retweeted tweet, if you get my drift!! :))EDIT: another thing is if it's a normal tweet, both values RETWEET_ID and RETWEET_NAME are NULL, so that's how I can differentiate between the two!!
 
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