Those are both gaps we hope to address in the next major release of the API. Thanks for your feedback!
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 8:07 AM, PockeTwitDev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems the search api is still lacking a few things to bring it in > line with the rest of the twitter api. My first issue was the lack of > xml output. I was able to write special handlers to use the atom > format instead, but it'd be nice for it to be consistant. > > My second issue was the lack of any in_reply_to_status_id information > on the results. I was trying to recreate a conversation by searching > for responses @thefirstuser and looking at their in_reply_to_status_id > to see if they were answers to the original question. Unfortunately, > that seems impossible with the current implementation. > > Thank you for the product and API, I look forward to seeing how it > grows in the future. > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x