Harry, There is nothing on the product roadmap that would lead to me believe any of the findings here will change.
Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:33 AM, hjb <ha...@heatonmoor.com> wrote: > > > @Doug, > > Is this behavour likely to remain? ( I noticed that ....@replies and - > @replies are successful ) > > That is to say, I'm sure @replies will work at some point via sms, but > can we rely on the fact that _...@replies do not? Is this related to > there being any chance of it being an email address? > > Thanks, > > Harry > > On May 11, 6:26 pm, Doug Williams <d...@twitter.com> wrote: > > In my test posts &@dougw and @DOUGW worked as mentions. t...@dougw and > > _...@dougw were not included as mentions. > > > > Thanks, > > Doug > > -- > > > > Doug Williams > > Twitter Platform Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw > > > > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:16 AM, CaMason <stasisme...@googlemail.com > >wrote: > > > > > > > > > Thanks Doug, that's a great help. > > > > > How about preceding? > > > > > i.e. should "t...@dougw", "_...@dougw" or "&@dougw" create mentions? The > > > main concern here obviously is email addresses. > > > > > And finally, are screen names case sensitive? :) > > > > > Cheers > > > > > On May 11, 6:07 pm, Doug Williams <d...@twitter.com> wrote: > > > > The classic definition of an @reply is any tweet that starts with > @user. > > > If > > > > you perfrom a to:user (e.g. to:dougw) query at search.twitter.comyou > > > will > > > > only get @replies. @replies were converted to mentions after we > realized > > > > people didn't just @reply. Mentions are any tweet that contain @user > > > within > > > > the text of the tweet. > > > > > > So @replies are a subset of mentions. > > > > > > Any non-alphanumeric (where alphanumeric is a-z, 0-9, or _) can > terminate > > > > the username. For instance: "hi @dougw, you look dapper today" is a > > > mention. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Doug > > > > -- > > > > > > Doug Williams > > > > Twitter Platform Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw > > > > > > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:36 AM, stasisme...@googlemail.com < > > > > > > stasisme...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > > For an application I'm working on, we have a single table for > 'tweets' > > > > > and another for DMs. We're linking TwitterUsers to Tweets with a > > > > > many:many, and a simple flag to specify if the tweet is a reply/ > > > > > mention. > > > > > > > We first pull in messages from the user_timeline feed, then the > > > > > mentions feed. As such, we'd like to check if any of the messages > in > > > > > user_timeline feed is actually a reply. > > > > > > > Could anybody clarify the exact rules that are used to determine > > > > > whether a string is a reply/mention? > > > > > > > i.e. > > > > > preceded by start-of-string or non-word character... > > > > > followed by space, comma, period or end of message... > > > > > case insensitive... > > > > > [not even sure if these are correct! :) ] > > > > > > > Currently I'm using: > > > > > > > /(?<![^\W_])@%s(?![^\W_])/i > > > > > > > with %s replaced by the user's screen name. Perhaps one of the devs > > > > > could share the exact rules (or even the regex), or propose a nicer > > > > > mechanism for detecting replies. > > > > > > > (I did propose checking for replies before tweets, but these update > > > > > threads are run asynchronously). > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > >
