diff --git a/mitterlib/network/twitter.py b/mitterlib/network/twitter.py
index 6245b83..bface1a 100644
--- a/mitterlib/network/twitter.py
+++ b/mitterlib/network/twitter.py
@@ -127,6 +127,9 @@ class TwitterNetworkData(NetworkData):
             self.name = retweet_user['name']
             self.username = retweet_user['screen_name']
             self.avatar = retweet_user['profile_image_url']
+            
+            # also switch the text for the original text.
+            data['text'] = data['retweeted_status']['text']
 
         # Twitter encodes a lot of HTML entities, which are not good when
         # you want to *display* then (e.g., "<" returns to us as "&lt;").