Twitter screen names aren't immutable -- they can be changed over time. Does anyone know if an old tweet references a screen name and that screen name changes ownership, does the reference to the screen name change within the old tweet?
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Afaik, if the screenname is referenced in the actual tweet text, the tweet text will remain, but he internal default hyper link will be removed. If it was a reply (as example) the link should stay intact, because it is linked to a statusid/userid?
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Reply chains don't appear to be affected from a name change. This all came about because I was looking at old tweets from my own account and I was pinging people that I now don't recognize under the screen name.
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Yes, because twitter compiles the handle in a reply from status and userid which are not immutable. However, a user can create a reply tweet type by inserting the username at the start of the text. So it does not apply to all is.reply =TRUE statuses.