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kyr
kyr

Reputation: 221

Twitter API reply (in_reply_to_status_id) not working properly

I am using the Twit library to build a Twitter bot in node.js. However, when I want to post a reply to a tweet, it appears, but not in the reply stream.

My code:

twitter.post('statuses/update', { in_reply_to_status_id: data.statuses[0].user.id, status: '@' + data.statuses[0].user.screen_name + ' -some message-' }, function (err, data, res) {});

Where data is a tweet object I got from a search request.

Any help on this?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 7837

Answers (3)

Dhiraj Sharma
Dhiraj Sharma

Reputation: 251

I was facing the same issue with replying to a particular tweet. Here are sample parameters which resolved my issue:

var username = user.screen_name;
var params= {
  in_reply_to_status_id:'715236671738908672',
  status:`@${username} ${message}`
}

Where the in_reply_to_status_id parameter contains a value of id_str instead of id of a particular tweet and the status parameter contains the value of "@"+user.screen_name+"message".

Upvotes: 6

M.Arun pandian
M.Arun pandian

Reputation: 85

you should add @username of the replied tweet in the status of the tweet.

Note: This (in_reply_to_status_id) parameter will be ignored unless the author of the Tweet this parameter references is mentioned within the status text. Therefore, you must include @username, where username is the author of the referenced Tweet, within the update.

Upvotes: 5

Romain Huet
Romain Huet

Reputation: 1193

The value for the parameter in_reply_to_status_id must be a Tweet ID to preserve the conversation. You passed here a user ID instead of a Tweet ID.

Also, when working with JavaScript in particular, please make sure you use the stringified IDs id_str instead of id to avoid any integer overflow issues.

As a result, below is the updated line of code with the stringified Tweet ID:

twitter.post('statuses/update', { in_reply_to_status_id: data.statuses[0].id_str, status: '@' + data.statuses[0].user.screen_name + ' -some message-' }, function (err, data, res) {});

Upvotes: 14

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