I've never known this to work, but I easily could be wrong. API won't do anything to stop you from doing this -- but it won't be considered an @reply. HootSuite very well could do some server-side association of the post since it is cognizant of the intent during creation -- but that seems far-fetched.
Taylor On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Orian Marx (@orian) <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> 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 > -- 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
