posting replies to tweets

[aeikenberry]

Hey sir, I'm trying to make replies, i've tried putting in_reply_to_status_id in the params, but it doesn't seem to be working.

My post looks like this:

T.post('statuses/update', { in_reply_to_status_id: 206921984414724100,  status: '@ABCDominique Great tweet, that.' }, function(err, reply) {
// things
      });

Any ideas?

[ttezel]

hey @aeikenberry,

I just ran your exact code above and tweeted at you without problems using the current version of twit. Try npm install twit and re-run your code. Let me know if you still have issues!

[aeikenberry]

Thanks for the reply. I'm able to @Someone, but the in_reply_to_status_id
remains null, so on twitter.com, the tweet doesn't show as a reply where
you can see what its a reply to.
On May 28, 2012 11:53 AM, "Tolga Tezel" <
reply@reply.github.com>
wrote:

hey @aeikenberry,

I just ran your exact code above and tweeted at you without problems using
the current version of twit. Try npm install twit and re-run your code.
Let me know if you still have issues!

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[ttezel]

if you want to get a in_reply_to_status_id, you need to get that first before posting the tweet. You can do something like this for example:

//grab my mentions
T.get('statuses/mentions', function (err, reply) {
  if (err) return console.log('error:', err)

  //tweet will be posted as a reply to the last mention I received
  var id = reply[0].id

  var opts = {
    in_reply_to_status_id: id
  , status: '@tolga_tezel Great tweet, that.'
  }

  //tweet it
  T.post('statuses/update', opts, function(err, reply) {
    if (err) return console.log('error:', err)
    console.log('reply:', reply)
  });
})

[aeikenberry]

I apologize if I'm doing this way wrong, but when I do this, I do not get an error, however, in the reply, in_reply_to_status_id stays null even if you include this parameter.

Are you seeing this in your reply's reply?

var opts = { in_reply_to_status_id: 207161603534229500
           , status: '@JonaW1995 Great one.' }

T.post('statuses/update', opts , function(err, reply) {
        console.log(reply);
      console.log(err);
      });

Looking at my reply, in_reply_to_status_id is null. Any ideas?

[ttezel]

Okay so I just ran a lookup on the id you posted above, and it 404'ed (a tweet with that id does not exist). So you're using the wrong in_reply_to_status_id value.

T.get('statuses/show/207161603534229500', function (err, reply) {
  if (err) return console.log('error:', err)

  console.log(reply)

  /*
reply looks like

error: { statusCode: 404,
  data: '{"request":"\\/1\\/statuses\\/show\\/207161603534229500.json","error":"No status found with that ID."}',
  twitterReply: '{"request":"\\/1\\/statuses\\/show\\/207161603534229500.json","error":"No status found with that ID."}' }
*/
})

[aeikenberry]

Hey sir,

I was just able to do it successfully by using the tweet['id_str'] instead of tweet['id'] as my in_reply_to_status_id. I'm not sure what the difference is on those. id_str is a string, id is a number, and sometimes they're not the same number.

But, i've tested using the string version, and it works well. Thanks for the help!

[ttezel]

No worries :)