diff --git a/mitterlib/network/twitter.py b/mitterlib/network/twitter.py
index 5aac5d3..a5cbb4e 100644
--- a/mitterlib/network/twitter.py
+++ b/mitterlib/network/twitter.py
@@ -187,10 +187,14 @@ class TwitterNetworkData(NetworkData):
             self.name = retweet_user['name']
             self.username = retweet_user['screen_name']
             self.avatar = retweet_user['profile_image_url']
+            self.id = data['retweeted_status']['id']
 
             # also switch the text for the original text.
             data['text'] = data['retweeted_status']['text']
 
+            # keep the message_time as is, so we have the retweet time, not he
+            # original message time
+
         # Twitter encodes a lot of HTML entities, which are not good when
         # you want to *display* then (e.g., "<" returns to us as "&lt;").
         # So we convert this here. Interfaces need to worry about converting