Jason, statuses/mentions would contain this data, and it is available via search. Let me bring this up with Alex, because you make a good point.
Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Jason Wong <[email protected]> wrote: > As I see it, replies also contain @screen_name in them. There's already an > API structure to find these items, via statuses/mentions. Is there a reason > why it's restricted to only the authenticating user and not open to access a > screen_name / user_id parameter? > > I can easily implement this if I keep everyone's authentication tokens and > doing statuses/mentions and checking the in_reply_to_status_id. But it's not > efficient and will have way too many hits against the twitter server. > > What do you guys think? > > Jason. > > > Doug Williams wrote: > > It requires a non trivial change to our architecture which means that until > the product at large (twitter.com) adopts the idea of conversation > threads, the API will be unable to offer this feature. > > > Doug Williams > Twitter API Support > http://twitter.com/dougw > > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Zac Bowling <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I see the bug was closed as "WONTFIX". Would it not be possible for >> search to get a param for in_reply_to_status_id? >> >> I'm not working on any twitter projects anymore but it could lead to >> some very interesting clients. >> >> >> Zac >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Doug Williams <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Please see http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=142 >> > >> > >> > Doug Williams >> > Twitter API Support >> > http://twitter.com/dougw >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Jason Wong <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> I'm trying to find a way to get all replies to a certain status. >> >> >> >> I was looking at the statuses/mentions function, but according to the >> >> documentation it only works with the authenticated user's screen_name. >> >> If I use statuses/user_timeline and get a status id that I know has >> >> replies, is there a way for me to get it without searching the >> >> public_timeline and checking the in_reply_to_status_id field for that >> >> status? It doesn't seem very efficient. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jason. >> > >> > >> > >
