Hi Steve, This is expected behavior. From the documentation:
References matched are statuses that were: -Created by a specified user -Explicitly in-reply-to a status created by a specified user (pressed reply "swoosh" button) -Explicitly retweeted by a specified user (pressed retweet button) -Created by a specified user and subsequently explicitly retweed by any user Are you seeing "random" tweets that do not have in_reply_to set to any of the ids in your follow list? -Chad On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Steve Farrell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, I think that's exactly the case. But not to one particular > user_id, just a lot of (apparently) random people. > > On Sep 7, 7:30 pm, John Kalucki <[email protected]> wrote: >> Do the apparently extraneous tweets happen to be in_reply_to a >> specified user_id? >> >> -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki >> Services, Twitter Inc. >> >> On Sep 5, 10:17 pm, SteveFarrell<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> > Hi! >> >> > I'm just getting started using the follow API. We got access to >> > "shadow" (thanks!) and I'm taking it for a spin now. I'm following >> > about 7k people. >> >> > Something weird I've found is that I seem to routinely get tweets from >> > users who were not included in my follow=parameter. I think I must be >> > doing something silly... or confused... anything I should look for? >> >> > Here's a code fragment.... >> >> > req = Net::HTTP::Post.new url.path >> > follow = Node.find(:all).map{|n| n.twitter_id}.join(",") >> > req.set_form_data :follow=>follow
