Re: [twitter-dev] parsing out entities from tweets (a.k.a. parsing out hashtags is hard!)

2010-05-13 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Thursday, May 13, 2010 02:25:27 pm Raffi Krikorian wrote: tweet text can potentially mention other users, lists, contain URLs, and contain hashtags -- in fact, something like 50% of tweets contain at least one of those. developers who want to understand the tweet text have to parse the

RE: [twitter-dev] parsing out entities from tweets (a.k.a. parsing out hashtags is hard!)

2010-05-13 Thread Brian Smith
Raffi, I have noticed that the API sometimes returns user ID's that are out of sync with username. I think one case is where a Alice retweets Bob's tweet, and then Bob changes his name to Charlie. When I try to reply to it, it doesn't show up as in reply to to original tweet because the reply

Re: [twitter-dev] parsing out entities from tweets (a.k.a. parsing out hashtags is hard!)

2010-05-13 Thread Raffi Krikorian
I have noticed that the API sometimes returns user ID’s that are out of sync with username. I think one case is where a Alice retweets Bob’s tweet, and then Bob changes his name to Charlie. When I try to reply to it, it doesn’t show up as “in reply to” to original tweet because the reply

Re: [twitter-dev] parsing out entities from tweets (a.k.a. parsing out hashtags is hard!)

2010-05-13 Thread John Barratt
Hi Raffi, This is all very cool I'm really looking forward to this being generally available. Not sure if this would be possible/practical or not, but it would be *really* useful if short urls in a tweet could be resolved to long urls, and those included instead, or as well. For extra

Re: [twitter-dev] parsing out entities from tweets (a.k.a. parsing out hashtags is hard!)

2010-05-13 Thread Adam Green
Which APIs will this apply to? Search, REST, Streaming, all of the above? On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: tweet text can potentially mention other users, lists, contain URLs, and contain hashtags -- in fact, something like 50% of tweets contain at least