See tweets in conversation/context

[Cassidy James Blaede]

Currently, I can see some "in reply to" text when a tweet was a direct reply to another tweet. One super handy feature would be to be able to see those tweets in context in some sort of conversation view.

Whether this is a decorated window popup or something else is to be determined, but as of now I get lost when I can't follow conversations.

[Ivo Nunes (ivonunes)]

The problem with implementing this (and some other features) is that Twitter only provides Birdie limited API calls. For example, the timeline is refreshing every two minutes just because Twitter only allows Birdie to get the timeline 15 times every 15 minutes. This is one of the reasons why I haven't, for example, implemented endless scrolling.

I haven't looked at how much calls we have available to do conversation threading, but it may not be enough.

[Ivo Nunes (ivonunes)]

Here is the relevant API call for this feature.

It renews every 15 minutes and we need to call it each time for every single tweet in a conversation.

[Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames)]

Wow, Twitter's API rules are harsh. :-/ I'm curious how popular Android clients do it; I've not ever had an issue where I'm unable to load something.

[Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames)]

Would the streaming API have any effect on this? https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-apis