Yes you need both the in_reply_to information to be set as well as the @username to appear within the tweet. And yes, this could be documented better.
@orian On May 5, 2:29 pm, Colt Fred <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings community, > > I've experienced a problem recently that I can't find an "official" > answer to. I'm attempting to use the update rest api and I'm passing > in "in_reply_to=XXXXXX", but it's being ignored. If I include a > "@user" where user is the owner of the tweet id I passed in, it works > fine. > > The official api documentation makes no note of this and I see that > there was talk of not requiring the @user here(http:// > groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/ > f009c76d17199084?pli=1) but I also see someone complaining about the > same problem here (http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development- > talk/browse_thread/thread/4ed686abbf59164b). > > What's twitter's official stance? If it is required to make the "in > reply to link", it should be noted in the api documentation. > > Thanks! > > Colt -- 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
