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Does Twitter have message-ids like email? I ask because email has the property that all replies are linked to the original message, creating a dependency tree
by zandorg 18y ago
Does Twitter have message-ids like email?
I ask because email has the property that all replies are linked to the original message, creating a dependency tree of ID's. Any system that doesn't create a unique message-id is a step back from email.
- seiji 18y agoMessage-Id is actually optional in email (recently brought up when trying to make a threaded email view: http://www.mail-archive.com/couchdb-user@incubator.apache.org/msg02025.html http://www.mail-archive.com/couchdb-user@incubator.apache.or... )
- zandorg 18y agoHi, thanks for pointing this out. I know that some web mail systems or Outlook mailboxes seem not to have the original ID, and one has to be generated in some random way (that breaks the links).
- shimon 18y agoTwitter messages have unique URLs (permalinks). It doesn't exactly have replies, though; you can send a message @someone (public, but intended especially for the given person) or send a private direct message, but there's no standard way to indicate which message you're replying to. This is an intentional step back from email. Twitter is a bad place to have long back-and-forth conversations by design.
- callmeed 18y agoThe Twitter timeline knows the specific message a reply is connected to.
- hboon 18y agoTwitter messages have unique IDs as well as an optional "message replied to id" (in_reply_to_status_id). The latter defaults to the last message from userX if you send a message with the @userX convention.
- zandorg 18y agoThanks for confirming about these message-ids with Twitter.