Is there an easy way to get the screen name of an in_reply_to_status_id for purposes of linking to the original tweet?
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Doug Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > Before today, the value of the in_reply_to_status_id field was validated by > two requirements,: > > 1) It was set to a valid status_id > 2) The valid status_id's author from #1 was @replied in the update (@reply > here is the old definition where "@user" was at the beginning of the tweet). > > If the value of in_reply_to_status_id did not meet these criteria, it was > silently dropped. > > We have relaxed requirement #2 to permit mentions, meaning that the user of > the referenced tweet needs to be included somewhere in the update. Enjoy the > new data! > > Thanks, > Doug > -- > > Doug Williams > Twitter Platform Support > http://twitter.com/dougw > > >
