. Is there a limit to the number of sub-threads in a Twitter conversation? For instance, I create a tweet, you reply to it, someone replies to your reply, etc.
I've never looked at that too deeply but I'm assuming there is some limit?
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The limit is something like "thousands of tweets" according to
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The biggest issue I see here is that tweets don't have any type of "original_tweet_reply_id" field. So if you truly want to organize all tweets that are a reply to an original retweet, you need to reconstruct the tree. I may even add a new field object to tweets so that any ...
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.... reply to any tweet within the tree has the very original tweet id recorded in that field.
To put simply, there's no glamorous method currently to know if a tweet in a branch of replies belongs to an original tweet with the fields provided by Twitter.
Hopefully there will be something like that soon:
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