Twitter: Inconsistent behaviour with user retweet handles in RSS Feed

[Yutin9]

Routes

/twitter/user/:id/:routeParams?

Full routes

/twitter/user/:id/:routeParams?

Related documentation

https://docs.rsshub.app/routes/social-media#x-twitter

What is expected?

When displaying a retweet in the title with default parameters, Twitter should either consistently return the actual retweeted author's handle in the RSS title and description for all entries, or it should return the current username for all entries.
Either:
<title>RT @userhandle1: foobar</title>, is provided for all entries with retweeted content
Or:
<title>RT username1: foobar</title> is provided for all entries with retweeted content

What is actually happening?

Retweets either provide the direct handle of the author or their current username at the same time within a feed, seemingly arbitrarily. Example provided below (feed shown is for /twitter/user/freezingtarou29, but can be observed across any feed with large amounts of retweets):

Deployment information

Self-hosted

Deployment information (for self-hosted)

OS: Windows, Node: 11.6.1

Additional info

no errors

This is not a duplicated issue

• I have searched existing issues to ensure this bug has not already been reported

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[Yutin9]

/twitter/user/:id/:routeParams? is the route, OP has been updated

[dosubot]

Hi @Yutin9! I'm Dosu and I’m helping the RSSHub team.

The inconsistent display of retweet author handles in the RSS feed comes from how RSSHub formats retweets: it uses the retweeted user's display name (item.user.name) in the title and description, not their handle (item.user.screen_name). If the display name changes or includes an @-handle, you’ll see mixed results—sometimes a handle, sometimes a username, depending on the retweeted user's current profile settings. There’s no built-in option or parameter to force consistent use of the handle in the feed output, and this isn’t addressed in the documentation or recent updates [source].

If you want consistent @handle formatting, you’d need to modify the code in lib/routes/twitter/utils.ts (specifically, in the ProcessFeed function) to use item.user.screen_name (with an @ prefix) instead of item.user.name when building retweet titles and descriptions. There are no known workarounds or parameters to achieve this without a code change.

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[Yutin9]

Modifying the utils.ts does fix the issue as mentioned above, I will assume this is the intended method and mark as closed. Thanks