There is a in_reply_to_screen_name field prepopulated for you on a Streaming API methods. The Streaming API cannot return null, as you cannot represent null over HTTP. I suspect you are having other problems.
-John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Sep 10, 4:43 pm, lithium <[email protected]> wrote: > I recently switched from search api to stream api. Consquently, I > needed to use the getInReplyToScreenName() to get the reply name. > However, this is returning null. > > Therefore, I am parsing the tweet text directly to extract the > @lithium token.
