Twitter seems to have finally delivered the exact retweet count on their platform
Twitter had announced back in February that they were uncapping the retweet count field on their platform.
Now you can see a Tweet’s total number of retweets and favorites, rather than “50+”. An example from @keselowski: twitter.com/keselowski/sta….
— Twitter (@twitter) June 18, 2012
This meant that the retweeted tweets would show the exact number of retweets they have received.
This update seems to be finally working and you can now see actual number of retweets of popular tweets.