[twitter-dev] Re: getting replies to user if user is not following the replying user

2009-03-12 Thread TjL
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: I think it does if you use: @user -to:user OH YAY! I've been trying to figure out how to do that. Thanks

[twitter-dev] Re: getting replies to user if user is not following the replying user

2009-03-11 Thread Chad Etzel
I thought that those type of replies would show up under the replies tab anyway (i.e. there doesn't need to be a relationship between two users (in either direction) for a reply to show up in the replies tab). I could be wrong, or maybe something changed... However, if you head to

[twitter-dev] Re: getting replies to user if user is not following the replying user

2009-03-11 Thread Doug Williams
Jeff, The search API [1] is drop dead simple. Say you have a search for any @reply or mention to @twitterapi [2]. Changing the search URL to include a format (json or atom) will give you a feed that can be parsed programmatically. For example: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%40twitterapi

[twitter-dev] Re: getting replies to user if user is not following the replying user

2009-03-11 Thread Jeff Bishop
I am also wanting to insure that I filter those items that I already processed from the Twitter API. I would rather not have duplicates. It is unclear if the Search API will return to me the Twitter ID values of a tweet to ignore already filtered tweets from the Twitter API. Sorry if this is

[twitter-dev] Re: getting replies to user if user is not following the replying user

2009-03-11 Thread Chad Etzel
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Jeff Bishop jeff.bis...@gmail.com wrote: I would prefer to get them in a feed like the Twitter API provides (like in a Status node).  Will these appear in the replies Twitter API call? They will appear in the Replies Twitter API feed. However, they will only

[twitter-dev] Re: getting replies to user if user is not following the replying user

2009-03-11 Thread Doug Williams
Jeff, A Search for @replies will return any tweet that contains a reference to the user. The current implementation of replies from the REST API will only return tweets that start with a reference to that user. Thus the result from the search API is the superset of all @replies and public mentions

[twitter-dev] Re: getting replies to user if user is not following the replying user

2009-03-11 Thread Chad Etzel
Let me give an example: Let's say I am UserA, and I send out this tweet: @UserB @UserC @UserD can't wait to see you this weekend for dinner with @UserE!! Then only UserB will see that tweet in their Reply feed (because the tweet physically starts with @UserB). UserC, UserD and UserE are SOL

[twitter-dev] Re: getting replies to user if user is not following the replying user

2009-03-11 Thread Matt Sanford
I think it does if you use: @user -to:user On Mar 11, 2009, at 09:42 AM, Jeff Bishop wrote: Right, but using the Search API doesn't provide a way of filtering out those already processed by the Twitter Replies API. See what I mean? Jeff - Original Message - From: Doug Williams