Finding tweet by id only

[Kelly Jones]

Can I find a tweet knowing only its id?

Everyone I've asked seems to think yes, but even the URLs are of the form:

http://twitter.com/[username]/statuses/[id]

so it looks you need at least the username and id.

I also didn't see an API call that gave you tweet content based on id.

Definitive answer here?

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[Chad Etzel]

Definitive answer: NO.

now not everyone you've asked seems to think yes :)

there was a thread about this not too long ago. pls search the archives.
-Chad

[Doug Williams]

Chad is referring to this conversation:

http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/4c0eaad027c9fb1a/fb460172cabfb143?lnk=gst&q=status#fb460172cabfb143

Doug Williams
Twitter API Support
http://twitter.com/dougw

[Kelly Jones]

Chad had me going until you pointed me to that URL.

http://twitter.com/statuses/show/id.format

obviously does the trick. I'm crying foul, though. In the TOC, you
link both f. iv. and g. iii. to the user version of show. For those of
us w/ the patience (and intelligence) of lemmings, it looks like there
is no show status method.

It also appears I have no access to edit this page, so I can't do my
good deed for the day by fixing this.

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We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying
to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to
new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile.

[Chad Etzel]

This is a known error with pbwiki TOC code, and not the fault of the
twitter api wiki maintainers.

My apologies on the previous answer. There is no direct way to show
info about a tweet id in html format, but you are correct in your REST
url format.

-Chad

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Kelly Jones

[TjL]

This seems like it would be a fairly easy project to do, something like

http://tweetbynumber.com/000000000

Look up the tweet, see if it exists, if it does, display it (and cache it)

Assuming that we eventually get a way to search for replies, you could
display those too.

Is Twitter Inc going to add this?

If not, is someone else working on it?

TjL

[Hwee-Boon Yar]

I built it into an iPhone client, blogged about it here -
http://motionobj.com/blog/the-conversation-view-in-simplytweet. Is
such a thing in wide demand?

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Hwee-Boon