title: Difference between -filter:retweet and -filter:nativeretweets in Twitter Search API 1.1
body: <p>I'm trying to run some queries against the Twitter API to collect some tweets. I want to filter out retweets and after some research discovered there seems to be two different tags you can append to the search query to filter them <code>-filter:retweet</code> and <code>-filter:nativeretweets</code>.</p>
  
  <p>I've ran sample queries with both options and can seem to tell the difference. List is returned tweets is slightly different but in no real way I can discern. Neither seem to contain retweets. I won't post the output here as it's a fairly length JSON output but I can if need be. </p>
  
  <p>The sample queries are</p>
  
  <p><strong>-filter:retweet</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=%22Sample+Query%22-filter:retweet&amp;count=100&amp;include_entities=false&amp;result_type=recent&amp;tweet_mode=extended
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  <p><strong>-filter:nativeretweets</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=%22Sample+Query%22-filter:nativeretweets&amp;count=100&amp;include_entities=false&amp;result_type=recent&amp;tweet_mode=extended
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