Not filtering retweets

[ajc356]

I have just run my snscrape query in two different iterations, one filtering retweets and one not. Yet I get the same number of results with each.

snscrape --jsonl --max-results 2000000 --since 2020-03-01 twitter-search '((CRB or #CRB) -clubes -coupe -SuperCoupe -SUPER_COUPE -football -belouizdad -chabab -USMA -brasileño -Brasileirão -Algérie -Railway -@IR_CRB -@RailMinIndia -@PiyushGoyal) OR CERB OR #CERB OR (#EI (Canada OR #onpoli OR #cdnpoli)) OR (Canada unemployment) OR ((#CRA or cra) (#covid19canada OR #covid19relief OR covid OR covid19 OR coronavirus or pandemic)) -filter:retweets' > cerb_no_retweets.json returns 255327 tweets

snscrape --jsonl --max-results 2000000 --since 2020-03-01 twitter-search '((CRB or #CRB) -clubes -coupe -SuperCoupe -SUPER_COUPE -football -belouizdad -chabab -USMA -brasileño -Brasileirão -Algérie -Railway -@IR_CRB -@RailMinIndia -@PiyushGoyal) OR CERB OR #CERB OR (#EI (Canada OR #onpoli OR #cdnpoli)) OR (Canada unemployment) OR ((#CRA or cra) (#covid19canada OR #covid19relief OR covid OR covid19 OR coronavirus or pandemic))' > cerb_with_retweets.json returns 255894 tweets

• Surely there have not been only 567 retweets on these topics but rather is due to users creating new tweets in the time (maybe 2 hours) between my queries. Could there be an issue with the way I am calling -filter:retweets ?

[JustAnotherArchivist]

As explained in your previous issue (#162), Twitter never returns retweets unless you explicitly specify include:nativeretweets or filter:nativeretweets. filter:retweets is for old-style retweets (tweet text prefixed by RT), which are essentially irrelevant nowadays.