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Replies to a particular tweet, Twitter API

Is there a good way to detect whether a tweet was a reply to another tweet.

Right now I'm thinking of checking the first character of the tweet - if it's an @, then it's a reply. But this would also select tweets like @veosotano did an awesome commit today.

So my question is, whether there are any better ways to detect replies?

2012-04-04 18:35
by Ragnis

See this post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2693553/replies-to-a-particular-tweet-twitter-ap - Chamilyan 2012-04-08 10:17

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Every tweet has several attribues starting in "in_reply_to"... I'd guess that if these exist, then the tweet is a reply:

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/twitter-ids-json-and-snowflake

They will also help you determine to whom this is a reply, and to what tweet.

2012-04-04 18:43
by WhyNotHugo

The example that I gave will also have these fields filled - Ragnis 2012-04-04 20:32

Right. Sooo... what's your question? That seems to answer what you initially asked - WhyNotHugo 2012-04-05 01:01

Doesn't really answer it at all and the example is misleading as it talks about the changes to tweets IDs , nothing to do with figuring out which one is a Reply. The example just refers to a tweet status object which can be inreplyto or not - Chamilyan 2012-04-05 09:34

WHAT? There's a field called "inreplytouserid". If it's present, the tweet is a reply, if it's empty, then it's not. What's so complicated about that? Just look at the exampe, circa line 39 - WhyNotHugo 2012-04-05 19:17

the link has nothing to do with what your talking about. You would be better off linking to this, https://dev.twitter.com/consol - Chamilyan 2012-04-06 07:16

The link I provided shows a relevant part of the API. The link you provide, lets you test that same API. Any programmer would read the API before trying someting out. I can, based on my link, create an application that can detect if a tweet is or isn't a reply to another. If you don't understand it; that's another matter - WhyNotHugo 2012-04-06 23:54

agh I'll say it again. I understand it perfectly and that's the problem. You linked to something completely irrelevant and misleading. The sample just happened to have one field with in_reply_to but the article has nothing to do with it - Chamilyan 2012-04-08 10:09

The article show an example of a tweet. The example is enough really - WhyNotHugo 2012-04-08 13:28