twirssi fails to pull reply context in some cases

zigdon / twirssi

An irssi script allowing the use of Twitter from within the IRC client.

http://twirssi.com

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twirssi fails to pull reply context in some cases #46

Open zigdon opened 12 years ago

zigdon commented 12 years ago

Importing here from IRC:

15:16 <~zigdon> I follow X and Y, but not Z 15:16 <~zigdon> Z posts, X replies (I don't see this, #fixreplies) 15:16 <~zigdon> Y replies to X's reply - I do see this, since I follow both 15:16 <~zigdon> but I have no context 15:17 <~zigdon> but given twirssi's auto context fetching, shouldn't it have pulled X's tweet, since it's context I haven't seen? 15:17 <~zigdon> if not... why?

sberghel commented 12 years ago

The Twitter website (and their iPhone app) does this too. To use your example, if what actually happened looks like this:

Z: I have an idea X: @Z I like ideas! Y: @X @Z Ideas are horrible

all that I see on the website/my phone is Y: @X @Z Ideas are horrible

zigdon commented 12 years ago

Right - it's how twitter is "supposed" to work. Twirssi works around that by manually fetching context for replies to tweets you didn't see. But for some reason, the case above, fails.