Today, we're announcing a new service called Reply Search at http://ping.fm/jAoCt.
So what does Reply Search do?
Have you ever seen your favourite celebrity ask a question, and you were wondering about the answer too? Or have you ever been taking part in a competition and been wondering who else was entering?
The Reply Search service allows you to view replies to tweets based on their ID, or based on a username.
How do i use it?
When you're looking at a tweet's URL, it may look like this: http://ping.fm/ODNlF. So you take that last number "3505525382" and enter it into the search box on the site. This will then show you the replies to that tweet.
Or alternatively, you can enter a username, and select one of the last 5 tweets of that user.
The API
We have an API which can be seen at http://ping.fm/7eChy/api.html. The API has several calls:
Lookup Replies - Lookup Replies allows you to access all direct replies to the particular tweet.
Top Replies - Top Replies allows you to view the top 20 most replied tweets within the last day.
Spider - Spider allows you to view all replies and recursive replies based on a particular ID. That is, if i reply to @mileycyrus and @jalada replied to me, then this would appear.
Stream - Want real-time access to the replies? Here you go. Given a particular set of IDs, the stream will give you the replies as they come in.
The API has been added into Twitterfall, and will be appearing soon.
Limitations
Due to limitations placed on us by Twitter, our service is not an entire data set. This means that we may not have a reply even if there is one. This is not an error with the system, but a limitation from the beginning.
Demonstrations and Libraries
We hope to get more demonstrations showing up on the site soon, currently we have one. We also have several wrapper libraries. If you'd like to submit a demonstration or a library, feel free to get in touch.
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