REST API Changes
Information compiled on Sept 14, 2016.
statuses/update
Endpoint
auto_populate_reply_metadata
Default is
false
Must have
in_reply_to_status_id
set.Unknown what happens if not set. Probably error (does it get posted?)
If the status to which you’re replying is deleted, tweet will fail to post.
exclude_reply_user_ids
List of
user_ids
to remove from result ofauto_populate_reply_metadata
.Doesn’t apply to the first
user_id
.If you try to remove it, this will be silently ignored by Twitter.
attachment_url
Must be a status permalnk or a DM deep link.
If it’s anything else and included in this parameter, Twitter will return an error.
Most Other Endpoints
tweet_mode
Any endpoint that returns a tweet will accept this param.
Must be in
['compat', 'extended']
If
tweet_mode == 'compat'
, then noextended_tweet
node in the json returned.If
tweet_mode == 'extended'
, then you’ll get theextended_tweet
node.
Errors
44 -> URL passed to attachment_url is invalid
385 -> Replied to deleted tweet or tweet not visible to you
386 -> Too many attachments types (ie a GIF + quote tweet)
Streaming API
Everything is going to be compatibility mode for now; however all tweets with have an extended_tweet
node, which will contain the new information. According to Twitter’s documentation though, there’s the possibility that this node may not exist. We should be careful about making assumptions here.
Changes to Models
Classic tweet: tweet with length < 140 char. Extended tweet: tweet with extended entities and text > 140 chars.
Twitter doesn’t say if extended tweet with a total length of < 140 characters will be considered a “Classic tweet”. They also state that an extended tweet shall have “text content [that] exceeds 140 characters in length”, however this is contradictory to earlier statements about total text length retaining a hard max at 140 characters.
There will be two rendering modes: Compatibility and Extended. If in compatibility mode and tweet is “classic”, no changes to tweet JSON. If in Extended mode, the following will change:
text
-> truncated version of the extended tweet’s text + “…” + permalink to tweet. (Twitter is mute on whether an extended tweet’s with (text + @mentions + urls) < 140 characters will have the @mentions + urls put back intext
field.)truncated
-> gets set toTrue
if extended tweet is rendered in compat mode.