[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions
Hi André, Search does have this feature, query for to:username to see the old replies behavior. Thanks; — Matt Sanford / @mzsanford On Apr 6, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Andre Muller wrote: A big issue of the client side filtration of retweets is that the server side pagination is lost... I think Twitter Search API should add a parameter for replies... Thank's Twitter is a great app! André Luiz Müller On Mar 31, 3:24 am, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: I'm going to combine a number of responses here so please bear with me: @Mike: I have heard no internal discussion of making retweets a feature, but that could simply be the result of freshman ignorance. As you point out in your post, the filtration of retweets from the timeline is one such instance where it would make sense. Regarding the change at hand, we feel the consensus from the user and developer community is that returning more data is a win. So, our current answer to the filtration of retweets is for applications to do that client side as desired. Regards, Doug Williams Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw
[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions
A big issue of the client side filtration of retweets is that the server side pagination is lost... I think Twitter Search API should add a parameter for replies... Thank's Twitter is a great app! André Luiz Müller On Mar 31, 3:24 am, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: I'm going to combine a number of responses here so please bear with me: @Mike: I have heard no internal discussion of making retweets a feature, but that could simply be the result of freshman ignorance. As you point out in your post, the filtration of retweets from the timeline is one such instance where it would make sense. Regarding the change at hand, we feel the consensus from the user and developer community is that returning more data is a win. So, our current answer to the filtration of retweets is for applications to do that client side as desired. Regards, Doug Williams Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw
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Direct messages are private and therefore not included in Search results. Search only includes public tweets. On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 13:37, Andre Muller andremul...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Matt I thought it was only for direct messages... :) By the way, is there a way to filter (exclude) the direct messages? Tks! André Luiz Müller On Apr 6, 3:06 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi André, Search does have this feature, query for to:username to see the old replies behavior. Thanks; — Matt Sanford / @mzsanford On Apr 6, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Andre Muller wrote: A big issue of the client side filtration of retweets is that the server side pagination is lost... I think Twitter Search API should add a parameter for replies... Thank's Twitter is a great app! André Luiz Müller On Mar 31, 3:24 am, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: I'm going to combine a number of responses here so please bear with me: @Mike: I have heard no internal discussion of making retweets a feature, but that could simply be the result of freshman ignorance. As you point out in your post, the filtration of retweets from the timeline is one such instance where it would make sense. Regarding the change at hand, we feel the consensus from the user and developer community is that returning more data is a win. So, our current answer to the filtration of retweets is for applications to do that client side as desired. Regards, Doug Williams Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw -- Abraham Williams | Hacker | http://abrah.am @poseurtech | http://the.hackerconundrum.com Web608 | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, WI, United States
[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: The API is not able to support retweets as a feature until the main Twitter.com site offers some notion of retweets as a feature. As evidenced by the recent shift from @replies to mentions, Twitter does listen to the users' behavior to drive site changes. We obviously recognize the large number of users adopting retweets as a way to share good content. For now, though, retweets must be found through client-side parsing. Thanks to all for the lively discussion on this thread. It has been valuable. I'd like to point out, if it isn't already obvious, that this is part of a larger issue that many of us are probably expecting Twitter to someday tackle -- another kind of trend monitoring, similar to the various counters of explicit retweets and those that count what I call implicit retweets -- services like @twurlednews (mine) and @twitturly. The more that people retweet, the more our timelines will be cluttered with redundancy. As retweeting become easier and more standardized, it is an increasingly valuable source of intelligence, but it will also create problems that Twitter and this community will have to/get to solve. In other words, consider the problems and opportunities that codifying retweets will create - I suspect that some API features will make sense to offer at the same time, providing summary data that makes it easy for clients to avoid all that redundancy. Nick
[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions
Doug: I've rechecked everything and it seems the problem was on my side. Sorry for the false report - Martin On Apr 2, 5:40 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Martin, I'm not seeing the problem with statuses/replies.json you are reporting. For which account are you missing data? Doug Williams Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Martin Dufort martin.duf...@gmail.comwrote: And is this available now via the JSON API interface because, according to my tests, I do not see any in the middle of a tweet mentions being reported by the API. Thanks - Martin On Mar 31, 1:33 pm, Joshua Perry j...@6bit.com wrote: This hasn't been said but I'm assuming this is only for tweets from this point forward, as I don't see any tweets from the past that mention my username... Doug Williams 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 Support http://twitter.com/dougw
[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions
Martin, I'm not seeing the problem with statuses/replies.json you are reporting. For which account are you missing data? Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Martin Dufort martin.duf...@gmail.comwrote: And is this available now via the JSON API interface because, according to my tests, I do not see any in the middle of a tweet mentions being reported by the API. Thanks - Martin On Mar 31, 1:33 pm, Joshua Perry j...@6bit.com wrote: This hasn't been said but I'm assuming this is only for tweets from this point forward, as I don't see any tweets from the past that mention my username... Doug Williams 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 Support http://twitter.com/dougw
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Doug, I second Mike's suggestion to codify RTs. I have clients who want to track RTs for two scenarios: 1. To find their brand influencers, as to who did the rts as they are their brand advocates. It would be helpful to get to this in a quick ap - track rts by person, how many rts of same content. I am gathering this manually or by loading tweets from the search API into an overall social media metrics tool and then massaging the data. Ideally I would like to automate this to connect to the internal marketing engine. 2. This is also powerful for companies trying A/B testing of messaging using RTs. Again tracking which rts echoed more and who give it the bump up and times when it worked best. I seem the lonely voice here as my needs are for building out enterprise apps or rather integration of twitter into the enterprise. best, Sudha Sudha Jamthe http://tmeet.me and unnamed twitter apps for Intuit, Network World. On Mar 30, 7:47 pm, Mike Champion mike.champ...@gmail.com wrote: Great, this will be a helpful change. Any discussion of codifying Retweets in a similar way in the search API? It seems like they are also a subset of Mentions where 1) starts with RT 2) includes a @mention 3) rest of the content (fuzzy) matches a previous tweet by the @mention tweeter. -mike On Mar 30, 10:28 pm, tweetip twee...@mac.com wrote: In changing our code, we've decided: Show my replies becomes Show my mentions but Reply to is not becoming Mention to - it stays Reply to otoh having both my replies and my mentions is something users will ask for... hth :)
[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions
The API is not able to support retweets as a feature until the main Twitter.com site offers some notion of retweets as a feature. As evidenced by the recent shift from @replies to mentions, Twitter does listen to the users' behavior to drive site changes. We obviously recognize the large number of users adopting retweets as a way to share good content. For now, though, retweets must be found through client-side parsing. Thanks to all for the lively discussion on this thread. It has been valuable. Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:15 PM, sujamthe sujam...@gmail.com wrote: Doug, I second Mike's suggestion to codify RTs. I have clients who want to track RTs for two scenarios: 1. To find their brand influencers, as to who did the rts as they are their brand advocates. It would be helpful to get to this in a quick ap - track rts by person, how many rts of same content. I am gathering this manually or by loading tweets from the search API into an overall social media metrics tool and then massaging the data. Ideally I would like to automate this to connect to the internal marketing engine. 2. This is also powerful for companies trying A/B testing of messaging using RTs. Again tracking which rts echoed more and who give it the bump up and times when it worked best. I seem the lonely voice here as my needs are for building out enterprise apps or rather integration of twitter into the enterprise. best, Sudha Sudha Jamthe http://tmeet.me and unnamed twitter apps for Intuit, Network World. On Mar 30, 7:47 pm, Mike Champion mike.champ...@gmail.com wrote: Great, this will be a helpful change. Any discussion of codifying Retweets in a similar way in the search API? It seems like they are also a subset of Mentions where 1) starts with RT 2) includes a @mention 3) rest of the content (fuzzy) matches a previous tweet by the @mention tweeter. -mike On Mar 30, 10:28 pm, tweetip twee...@mac.com wrote: In changing our code, we've decided: Show my replies becomes Show my mentions but Reply to is not becoming Mention to - it stays Reply to otoh having both my replies and my mentions is something users will ask for... hth :)
[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions
And is this available now via the JSON API interface because, according to my tests, I do not see any in the middle of a tweet mentions being reported by the API. Thanks - Martin On Mar 31, 1:33 pm, Joshua Perry j...@6bit.com wrote: This hasn't been said but I'm assuming this is only for tweets from this point forward, as I don't see any tweets from the past that mention my username... Doug Williams 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 Support http://twitter.com/dougw
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Superb update Doug, having all mentions of your username picked up via replies/mentions is a real improvement which, from the TweetDeck experience, has led to a marked increase in the use of @usernames in a more conversational style. More importantly, it has also enabled/ encouraged the use of multi-user targeted tweets which IMO has improved the utility of twitter. I've stripped out the now redundant search API call from the replies column and will be pushing out a new TweetDeck release (with some interesting developments :)) later on this week. Iain
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The in_reply_to_status_id will be honored only if the value is a status_id that was authored by a user that is also mentioned in the tweet. Given the fact that we do have in_reply_to_status_id as a separate meta data field to indicate a reply, I wonder why you guys require the tweet to include the recipient's screen name. After all, tweets _are_ limited in length. I'm sure you thought long and hard about this, and I'd be interested in some background information, if you don't mind, Doug. Did you choose this path for user experience reasons only, or is there also a technical reason? All in all, I really like the new Mentions, but I do wonder if a separate Replies twitter.com section/API call, which doesn't require mentioning of the recipient, would be worthwhile. That way, we'd have even more data to play with. :) Peter.
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Hi all, One thing to keep in mind when thinking about any meta-data fields is that they are invisible via SMS. Some features that's ok for (like the exact status it was a reply to) but the text of the message itself should have enough context to be clear to the recipient. @user yes, I'll marry you would make sense on SMS, just yes, I'll marry you could be awkward :) Thanks; — Matt Sanford On Mar 31, 2009, at 07:03 AM, Peter Maurer wrote: The in_reply_to_status_id will be honored only if the value is a status_id that was authored by a user that is also mentioned in the tweet. Given the fact that we do have in_reply_to_status_id as a separate meta data field to indicate a reply, I wonder why you guys require the tweet to include the recipient's screen name. After all, tweets _are_ limited in length. I'm sure you thought long and hard about this, and I'd be interested in some background information, if you don't mind, Doug. Did you choose this path for user experience reasons only, or is there also a technical reason? All in all, I really like the new Mentions, but I do wonder if a separate Replies twitter.com section/API call, which doesn't require mentioning of the recipient, would be worthwhile. That way, we'd have even more data to play with. :) Peter.
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[Charset WINDOWS-1252 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] Hi all, One thing to keep in mind when thinking about any meta-data fields is that they are invisible via SMS. Some features that's ok for (like the exact status it was a reply to) but the text of the message itself should have enough context to be clear to the recipient. @user yes, I'll marry you would make sense on SMS, just yes, I'll marry you could be awkward :) Thanks; _ Matt Sanford On Mar 31, 2009, at 07:03 AM, Peter Maurer wrote: The in_reply_to_status_id will be honored only if the value is a status_id that was authored by a user that is also mentioned in the tweet. Given the fact that we do have in_reply_to_status_id as a separate meta data field to indicate a reply, I wonder why you guys require the tweet to include the recipient's screen name. After all, tweets _are_ limited in length. I'm sure you thought long and hard about this, and I'd be interested in some background information, if you don't mind, Doug. Did you choose this path for user experience reasons only, or is there also a technical reason? All in all, I really like the new Mentions, but I do wonder if a separate Replies twitter.com section/API call, which doesn't require mentioning of the recipient, would be worthwhile. That way, we'd have even more data to play with. :) Peter. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- I am the mother of all things, and all things must wear a sweater. -
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On 3/30/09 8:39 PM, Doug Williams wrote: 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. OMG! It's like Christmas, in March! Thanks, Twitter Oompa-Loompas! -- Dossy Shiobara | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/ Panoptic Computer Network | http://panoptic.com/ He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on. (p. 70)
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This hasn't been said but I'm assuming this is only for tweets from this point forward, as I don't see any tweets from the past that mention my username... Doug Williams 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 Support http://twitter.com/dougw
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Peter, When the in_reply_to_status_id is set, the Web GUI appends the in reply to user to the tweet. Therefore, we want to confirm that status_id is owned by a user mentioned in the tweet before accepting the in_reply_to_status_id. This constraint permits a less confusing user experience by ensuring the tweet is indeed a reply to the status provided in the parameter. Thanks, Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Joshua Perry j...@6bit.com wrote: This hasn't been said but I'm assuming this is only for tweets from this point forward, as I don't see any tweets from the past that mention my username... Doug Williams 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 Support http://twitter.com/dougw
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...and there was much rejoicing! Hooray / -chad On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:44 PM, atebits loren.brich...@gmail.com wrote: Fantastic change - thanks! 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
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Something to keep in mind: our UX team has decided to represent this feature as @$username on the web. If you don't have room for that label in your Twitter app's GUI, consider an @ symbol. If you don't like that representation, at least considering renaming Replies to Mentions in your GUI to stay consistent with what new users will see when they sign in to twitter.com. That said, the new behavior is intuitive even with the label of Replies, so don't panic if it takes a few days (or weeks) to push out a new version of your app with a new label in the GUI. You shouldn't need to change any of the logic (though you may get to remove some if you were doing vanity searches via the Search API). If your users don't like the new behavior, it's trivial to give them the option to filter out anything but tweets starting with @$username. We figured we'd err on the side of giving you more data to work with. Enjoy! On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 17:39, 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 Support http://twitter.com/dougw -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
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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
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Craig, Great questions. The in_reply_to_status_id will be honored only if the value is a status_id that was authored by a user that is also mentioned in the tweet. Therefore, if you include a status_id for this parameter and that is either 1) invalid or 2) does not belong to a user mentioned in the tweet, the field will be discarded. Your second question then becomes pretty intuitive when coupled with our recent change to the in_reply_to_status_id field. If this field is valid by the rules above, it will produce a in reply to user in the Web GUI. Thanks, Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Jakk specto...@gmail.com wrote: I've been waiting for this for so long, thank you! On Mar 30, 8:39 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
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What would be a nice addition would be the ability to have a mentions meta tag with the Tweet stating those mentioned in the Tweet. Those in the mentions meta tag don't necessarily have to be in the Tweet. Consider this similar to Facebook's tagging for photos and videos, and UIs could build tagging around that without the user ever having to mention anyone in the Tweet itself. My thought on this is that by using that method, users wouldn't necessarily have to pollute their Tweets with a user's name while trying to get their attention. It also wouldn't take away from the 140 characters and the Tweet could focus more on content. I'd love to see the same types of meta-tagging for hashtags and keywords describing the Tweet. Jesse On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Something to keep in mind: our UX team has decided to represent this feature as @$username on the web. If you don't have room for that label in your Twitter app's GUI, consider an @ symbol. If you don't like that representation, at least considering renaming Replies to Mentions in your GUI to stay consistent with what new users will see when they sign in to twitter.com. That said, the new behavior is intuitive even with the label of Replies, so don't panic if it takes a few days (or weeks) to push out a new version of your app with a new label in the GUI. You shouldn't need to change any of the logic (though you may get to remove some if you were doing vanity searches via the Search API). If your users don't like the new behavior, it's trivial to give them the option to filter out anything but tweets starting with @$username. We figured we'd err on the side of giving you more data to work with. Enjoy! On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 17:39, 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 Support http://twitter.com/dougw -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
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I can also see there being a need to filter out some of your mentions: if you're one of those users who gets a lot of retweets, seeing RT @chockenberry SAID SOMETHING FUNNY is going to get pretty annoying as thousands of people echo what you say. Is there going to be an option so that only replies get put into your mentions feed (statuses/ replies)? I think this is a stellar idea. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- How are you gentlemen? All your base are belong to us! -
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Great, this will be a helpful change. Any discussion of codifying Retweets in a similar way in the search API? It seems like they are also a subset of Mentions where 1) starts with RT 2) includes a @mention 3) rest of the content (fuzzy) matches a previous tweet by the @mention tweeter. Yes, but it seems TMTOWTDI with RTs because I've also seen xyzpdq (via @omglol), retweet @omglol: xyzpdq, etc. There's too much variation in syntax. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- You've got to have a gimmick if your band sucks. -- Gary Giddens ---
[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions
Great, this will be a helpful change. Any discussion of codifying Retweets in a similar way in the search API? It seems like they are also a subset of Mentions where 1) starts with RT 2) includes a @mention 3) rest of the content (fuzzy) matches a previous tweet by the @mention tweeter. -mike On Mar 30, 10:28 pm, tweetip twee...@mac.com wrote: In changing our code, we've decided: Show my replies becomes Show my mentions but Reply to is not becoming Mention to - it stays Reply to otoh having both my replies and my mentions is something users will ask for... hth :)
[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions
Thanks for the clarification, Doug. Overall, I think this is a very positive change. Just a little spooked that it came out of the blue like it did - maybe next time it would be wise to give us a bit of a heads up before deploying... More questions: On http://twitter.com/account/notifications, will there be new options to control how your @replies are handled? Currently, the user can choose: All @replies @replies to the people I'm following No @replies Does this now mean: All mentions Mentions to the people I'm following No mentions ? I can also see there being a need to filter out some of your mentions: if you're one of those users who gets a lot of retweets, seeing RT @chockenberry SAID SOMETHING FUNNY is going to get pretty annoying as thousands of people echo what you say. Is there going to be an option so that only replies get put into your mentions feed (statuses/ replies)? -ch On Mar 30, 6:38 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Craig, Great questions. The in_reply_to_status_id will be honored only if the value is a status_id that was authored by a user that is also mentioned in the tweet. Therefore, if you include a status_id for this parameter and that is either 1) invalid or 2) does not belong to a user mentioned in the tweet, the field will be discarded. Your second question then becomes pretty intuitive when coupled with our recent change to the in_reply_to_status_id field. If this field is valid by the rules above, it will produce a in reply to user in the Web GUI. Thanks, Doug Williams Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Jakk specto...@gmail.com wrote: I've been waiting for this for so long, thank you! On Mar 30, 8:39 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
[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: Yes, but it seems TMTOWTDI with RTs because I've also seen xyzpdq (via @omglol), retweet @omglol: xyzpdq, etc. There's too much variation in syntax. TMTOWTDI ?? There's More Than One Way To Do It ... I imagine there's not a big Perl crowd on this list. *le sigh* Ah, of course... I had never seen it in acronym form before, and I was le tired. AH MOTHERLAND! -chad
[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.comwrote: Yes, but it seems TMTOWTDI with RTs because I've also seen xyzpdq (via @omglol), retweet @omglol: xyzpdq, etc. There's too much variation in syntax. TMTOWTDI ?? There's More Than One Way To Do It ... I imagine there's not a big Perl crowd on this list. *le sigh* I got it - how young is this list? I'm only 31, but I guess that's old these days. Perl's much more widely used than people think, I think. Anyone noticed the YAML::Syck messages in SMS from Twitter lately? Jesse
[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions
Also, I see Alex is talking about @$username - is that documented somewhere? I didn't find it when I went looking in the REST API doc (or the search doc either, for that matter). Alex means it as a pattern, i.e., @doctorlinguist, @al3x, etc. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- He who Laughs, Lasts. --
