[twitter-dev] Re: Clarification on how @ messages and PM's are handled - PLEASE HELP

2009-06-24 Thread Abraham Williams
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 16:12, Nicholas S wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > I would very much appreciate the groups help on this. I work for a > local city government in Florida and we are trying to look into using > Twitter to help make government more transparent and engaged with our > community. BUT

[twitter-dev] Re: Clarification on how @ messages and PM's are handled - PLEASE HELP

2009-06-24 Thread Joel Strellner
Hi Nicholas, I don't work for twitter, but I believe that they associate ID's to messages (tweets or DMs), and then associate the ID to each of the users that it needs to go to. The message is only stored once, unlike email which is copied to each user. If a user deletes their message, all the