It's a lovely flame going on, but hoping to increase the S2N ratio _just
slightly_, I think summarizing what Twitter's behavior _should be_ will
be helpful:
1) If a POSTed update has in_reply_to metadata included, always use that.
2) Else, if the update starts with @name, auto-populate the in_reply_to
metadata with the latest tweet from the named user.
The current Twitter behavior where a tweet starts with "@name" but has
NO in_reply_to metadata is a DEFECT, and I suggest we open an issue in
the issue tracker and all vote it up to make this very clear:
#373: Tweets starting with @name missing in_reply_to metadata
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=373
The people who needs to understand this bug are the Twitter folks, not
some random person on the mailing list who doesn't understand it and
doesn't seem to want to.
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Dossy Shiobara | [email protected] | 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)
