When did this change to actually require starting the @reply with the @username? HootSuite has long supported sending tweets in reply to others without leading with the @username. Does this no longer work?
On Oct 7, 3:42 pm, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> wrote: > With as often as this comes up, it's obvious that we aren't communicating > this clearly and the historical aspect of this isn't obvious: > > An @reply requires that it begins with the @username of the user being > replied to. The in_reply_to_status_id field is not enough to associate the > tweets as a reply -- the username must also be present. > > Also: When using a POST method, don't include your fields/parameters on the > query string. Instead, put them in the POST body. You may find someday that > passing such parameters on the query string just stops working. > > Taylor > > > > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Matthew <matt.c.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > Been working on a project that will allow users to reply to tweets. I > > am having difficulty in getting the 'in_reply_to_message_id' to be > > acknowledged. I have been using the latest version of Abraham's > > TwitterOAuth library, also confirmed the problem through apigee. > > > Example request (over POST): > > >http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.json?in_reply_to_status_id=2... > > like its not working for apigee either > > > I can confirm the in_reply_to_status_id message is a message I posted > > earlier. > >http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/show/26673308442.json > > > I get a response back from twitter with field populated except with > > "in_reply_to_status_id" : null. > > Is there currently a glitch in the twitterapi, or am I using this > > function improperly? > > > Thanks in advance! > > > -- > > Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc > > API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi > > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > >http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > > Change your membership to this group: > >http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
