Twitter API: Check if a tweet is a retweet

Question

I have found this question. However I think this has changed on API version 1.1.

If I use the search/tweets method, how can I see if the tweet is a RT?

Answer 1

The retweeted field is false if the retweet is not done using the retweet button but rahter via RT, so in such a case, just search the "text" field of all tweets for this pattern

RT @

This pattern can be of help, but I don't think there is any other function for this.