JSON Baumgartner on Twitter: "Possible Twitter API bug (very strange). I came across this tweet: https://t.co/7efDqB1Hey The Twitter API is showing "in_reply_to_screen_name" as realdonaldtrump but this isn't a reply tweet. This is a quoted tweet where his name was tagged. Is this expected behavior?" / Twitter

Possible Twitter API bug (very strange). I came across this tweet: twitter.com/ileneax/status The Twitter API is showing "in_reply_to_screen_name" as realdonaldtrump but this isn't a reply tweet. This is a quoted tweet where his name was tagged. Is this expected behavior?

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ilene axel

@ileneax

Apr 24, 2020

@realDonaldTrump is complete an utter failure! twitter.com/JoeBiden/statu…

1:24 AM · Apr 25, 2020Twitter Web App

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JSON Baumgartner

@jasonbaumgartne

Apr 25, 2020

So in order to know that a tweet is definitely a reply to some other tweet, I guess you'd have to also look at the in_reply_to_status_id field. Interesting.

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