I was working with this api method today as well. What I found was that if your update's text does not contain an @reply to the user who created the status you are sending a reply to, Twitter seems to ignore the in_reply_to_status_id. I hope that helps.
-Adam On Jan 28, 10:11 am, Rocker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to achieve the reply functionality of the twitter to a > particular tweet(status) using > thehttp://api.twitter.com/version/statuses/update.formaturl. > In this i am passing in_reply_to_status_id parameter and > include_entities=true to replay to a tweet. > The status got updated but the response xml doesn't contain any data > in the in_reply_to_status_id node. > Even though the status got posted, it isn't displayed as a reply. > > Am i on the wrong track? > What could be the possible reason. I am using OAuth for the whole > scenario. > > Thanks > Rocker -- 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
