1.7.x Twitter module: is there any way to show a photo from a retweet?

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My CMS & client version: 1.7.x
I’ve already compared twitter.module.php between my version and 1.7.9 and there’s nothing related to this issue in it, so I’m fairly sure that upgrading to 1.7.9 won’t resolve this issue.

The issue I’m seeing: When I display tweets using “Full Twitter Time line”, the photo is not shown for some of the tweets that have a photo.

Here is a search term you can use to see the problem: from:cbcsports

Checking the “statuses” returned from Twitter in the CMS audit log, I found that Twitter is not providing a “media” for the tweets that are missing their photo. Checking the missing-photo tweets to see if they have anything in common with each other, I found something: they’re not originals; they’re retweets.

Is there any way to show a photo from a retweet?

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Interesting, at least in one of our dev 1.7.9 environments it seems to display images from RT just fine.

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and the original tweet that CBS retweeted - https://twitter.com/hockeynight/status/851077227437584384

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Hmm. It appears I was wrong about it being all retweets. Checking the feed this morning, some retweets are shown with photos but some are not. (However those from yesterday that didn’t appear with photos are still not appearing with photos.) Perhaps it’s related to some attribute or parameter of the original tweets. I’ll try investigating in that direction.

Thank you, Peter for your time.