[twitter] restore the text of truncated retweets #3430
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The text of retweets often gets truncated because Twitter prepends the original author's username to it:
(taken from here, warning: kind of NSFW)
This PR solves the issue by prepending the "prefix" to the text of the original tweet. I tried using
retweets=original
instead, but that would change a lot of the other fields and break my existing archive database.The legacy pagination method needs more testing because the corresponding API endpoints never seemed to return any retweets for me.