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 More options Aug 16 2008, 9:27 am
From: ironfroggy <ironfro...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:27:22 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sat, Aug 16 2008 9:27 am
Subject: Re: in_reply_to_status_id
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Will there be a way to determine, when looking at a specific reply, if
the in_reply_to_status_id was given by the client or guessed by the
system? It could be useful to know if its accurate or possibly
incorrect.

On Aug 14, 1:34 pm, "Alex Payne" <a...@twitter.com> wrote:

> All,

> 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_to_status_id.  As you might
> guess, this allows API clients to specify which status a status to be
> posted is in reply to, rather than our system assuming that it's in
> reply to the last message posted by the user specified by "@username".

> If your client posts statuses, please consider making use of this
> feature.  By convention, we'd like to continue to use "@username" at
> the beginning of messages that are replies, but specifying the
> in_reply_to_status_id parameter will override the guess about the
> in_reply_to_status_id attribute that our system makes.  Yes, this does
> mean that you could post a message that appears to be a reply to Alice
> while it's actually a reply to Bob; that's fine, as I'm sure there's a
> use case for it out there.

> We hope this addition will allow for more accurate conversations on
> Twitter.  I can't wait to see what you all do with it!

> --
> Alex Paynehttp://twitter.com/al3x


 
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