Implement in_reply_to_status_id
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | ||
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| TwitKit | Status tracked in 1.0 | |||||
| 1.0 |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Hans Engel | |||
Bug Description
From http://
"I'm happy to announce a minor change to the API that should have a major impact on the Twitter community. The /statuses/update method now takes an optional parameter: in_reply_
What does this mean? Essentially now any Twitter client can now associate another post as a reply to another existing post. This means that Twhirl or TweetDeck can allow a user to post a normal status update, and provide a "+" sign underneath (or "@" similar to the Twhirl FriendFeed client), and a new post can be appended as a reply to the previous post.
| Hans Engel (hansengel) wrote | #1 |
| Hans Engel (hansengel) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in twitkit: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| milestone: | none → 1.2 |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| assignee: | nobody → hansengel |
I saw this email on the mailing list but I'm having a bit of trouble deciding how we could make this work. When the 'reply' button is clicked, we can set a variable saying that the next tweet sent will be a reply to that tweet, but what if the user decides against it and deletes the '@user' part? We'll have no way of knowing and the next tweet would display as 'in reply to @user' when it actually isn't.