Are replies created by setting the in_reply_to_status_id with the statuses/update method affected by this change?
There are some clients that set the id when doing things like retweeting -- and these may or may not have a reference to a user's screen name in them. Will these tweets continue to show up in the statuses/replies feed? -ch On Mar 30, 5:39 pm, Doug Williams <d...@twitter.com> wrote: > Devs, > Before today calls to statuses/replies [1] would return only tweets that > were prefixed with a @username. As clients began to recognize the value in > mentions of a @username anywhere in the tweet, they opted to perform a > search for @username to get the superset. > > Twitter agrees [2] that the definition of a reply has changed, and as such, > calls to statuses/replies contain any tweets that include a mention of the > authenticating user. > > If your client has been using the Search API to retrieve @replies, you > should begin to migrate to statuses/replies method as it now best practice. > > 1.http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST-API-Documentation#statuses/replies > 2.http://blog.twitter.com/2009/03/replies-are-now-mentions.html > > Code on, > Doug Williams > Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw
