Tweets starting with "RT:" are not detected as retweets

[trivikr]

Describe the bug

Tweets starting with "RT:" are not detected as retweets

Steps to reproduce

I'm not sure how I used to retweet in 2009 before retweeting was standardized, but half of my retweets start with RT:
Example https://x.com/trivikram/status/1429604586

Observed behavior

These retweets are not detected as retweets my this migration tool, and a bluesky skeet is created.

Expected behavior

Tweets starting with RT: to be detected as retweets?

Additional context

I just ended up deleting those posts once they were created on BlueSky.

[clemensv]

If there were command line options, "retweet prefixes" is an option I'd add, @marcomaroni-github ;)

[marcomaroni-github]

@trivikr The colon after RT did not make a tweet a RT, there should have been a space after RT, even the example you gave does not seem to me to be identified as a RT

[clemensv]

In the earliest days, "RT" was just a convention and not a feature

[lucidillusions]

yeah, people used to quote a post and add RT to show it was the person's tweet and then add their take to it.

[trivikr]

I also used to add suffix sometimes (via @alias). I think it was through Echofon.

[trivikr]

To unblock myself, I just did a deep dive in data/tweets.js in my archive, and wrote a script to explicitly add RT prefix to the full_text of these tweets. The module than treated these tweets as retweets.