User Replies

Gets the replies to a specific user.

API call type slug: user_replies

Example Usage: api/v1/post.php?type=user_replies&username=samwhoo

Required arguments

  • user_id or username

    Only one of these is required. They are to specify the user to gather posts for in this call.

Optional Arguments

  • network

    The network to use in the call. Defaults to ‘twitter’.

  • order_by

    The column to order the results by. Defaults to chronological order (“date”).

  • direction

    The direction to order the results in. Can be either DESC or ASC. Defaults to DESC.

  • count

    The number of results to display from this API call. Defaults to 20. If you supply something that is not a valid number, this argument will revert to its default value of 20. For performance reasons, the maximum number of posts the ThinkUp API returns per call is 200.

  • page

    The page of results to display for this API call. Defaults to 1. When you get to the end of the pages of results, API calls will just return empty JSON. No error is generated.

  • include_entities

    Whether or not to include Tweet Entities in the output. Defaults to false. This argument can be set to true by making it equal to either 1, t or true.

  • include_replies

    Whether or not to include replies to this post in the output. This argument is recursive and will retrieve replies to replies also. Defaults to false. This argument can be set to true by making it equal to either 1, t or true.

  • trim_user

    If set to true, this flag strips the user part of the output to just the user’s ID and nothing else. Defaults to false. This argument can be set to true by making it equal to either 1, t or true.

Example output

api/v1/post.php?type=user_replies&username=samwhoo&count=5:

[
    {
        "id":61263346028122114,
        "source":"web",
        "location":"Canada",
        "place":null,
        "geo":null,
        "in_reply_to_user_id":69410725,
        "is_reply_by_friend":true,
        "in_reply_to_post_id":61257731159490560,
        "in_rt_of_user_id":null,
        "reply_retweet_distance":0,
        "is_retweet_by_friend":false,
        "favorited":false,
        "all_retweets":0,
        "text":"@samwhoo Passionate",
        "created_at":"Fri Apr 22 03:01:34 +0100 2011",
        "annotations":null,
        "truncated":false,
        "protected":false,
        "thinkup":{
            "retweet_count_cache":0,
            "reply_count_cache":0,
            "old_retweet_count_cache":0,
            "is_geo_encoded":0
        },
        "user":{
            "id":85760550,
            "location":"Canada",
            "description":"Hah!",
            "url":"",
            "friend_count":18,
            "followers_count":18,
            "profile_image_url":"http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/855291577/twitterProfilePhoto_normal.jpg",
            "name":"Benoit Landry",
            "screen_name":"Salvidrim",
            "statuses_count":837,
            "created_at":"Wed Oct 28 06:50:42 +0000 2009",
            "utc_offset":3600,
            "avg_tweets_per_day":1.55,
            "last_updated":"2011-04-22 07:00:53",
            "thinkup":{
                "last_post":"0000-00-00 00:00:00",
                "last_post_id":0,
                "found_in":"retweets"
            }
        }
    },
    {
        "id":61263078871937024,
        "source":"web",
        "location":"Lehi, Utah",
        "place":null,
        "geo":null,
        "in_reply_to_user_id":69410725,
        "is_reply_by_friend":false,
        "in_reply_to_post_id":61238661223682048,
        "in_rt_of_user_id":null,
        "reply_retweet_distance":0,
        "is_retweet_by_friend":false,
        "favorited":false,
        "all_retweets":0,
        "text":"@samwhoo I'm glad i got my degree, but the every day skills came from open source and other in-the-trenches stuff.  Congrats again!",
        "created_at":"Fri Apr 22 03:00:30 +0100 2011",
        "annotations":null,
        "truncated":false,
        "protected":false,
        "thinkup":{
            "retweet_count_cache":0,
            "reply_count_cache":1,
            "old_retweet_count_cache":0,
            "is_geo_encoded":0
        },
        "user":{
            "id":9905392,
            "location":"Lehi, Utah",
            "description":"A software toolsmith that creates, customizes, and masters great software tools.",
            "url":"http://findme.travishartwell.net/",
            "friend_count":805,
            "followers_count":1620,
            "profile_image_url":"http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/35267502/n882175547_27194_normal.jpg",
            "name":"Travis B. Hartwell",
            "screen_name":"travisbhartwell",
            "statuses_count":1744,
            "created_at":"Sat Nov 03 02:50:41 +0000 2007",
            "utc_offset":3600,
            "avg_tweets_per_day":1.38,
            "last_updated":"2011-04-22 04:01:12",
            "thinkup":{
                "last_post":"0000-00-00 00:00:00",
                "last_post_id":0,
                "found_in":"mentions"
            }
        }
    },
    {
        "id":61214633675067392,
        "source":"<a href=\"http://mobile.twitter.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter for Android</a>",
        "location":"",
        "place":null,
        "geo":null,
        "in_reply_to_user_id":69410725,
        "is_reply_by_friend":false,
        "in_reply_to_post_id":61136478058708992,
        "in_rt_of_user_id":null,
        "reply_retweet_distance":0,
        "is_retweet_by_friend":false,
        "favorited":false,
        "all_retweets":0,
        "text":"@samwhoo l kicked off quite a thread. Sorry! :)",
        "created_at":"Thu Apr 21 23:48:00 +0100 2011",
        "annotations":null,
        "truncated":false,
        "protected":false,
        "thinkup":{
            "retweet_count_cache":0,
            "reply_count_cache":1,
            "old_retweet_count_cache":0,
            "is_geo_encoded":0
        },
        "user":{
            "id":18326200,
            "location":"",
            "description":"",
            "url":"http://pdurbin.freeshell.org",
            "friend_count":100,
            "followers_count":51,
            "profile_image_url":"http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/68449525/6b686fe7f07115890ca63099d088948d-2_normal.jpg",
            "name":"Philip Durbin",
            "screen_name":"philipdurbin",
            "statuses_count":364,
            "created_at":"Tue Dec 23 04:17:49 +0000 2008",
            "utc_offset":3600,
            "avg_tweets_per_day":0.43,
            "last_updated":"2011-04-22 01:00:21",
            "thinkup":{
                "last_post":"0000-00-00 00:00:00",
                "last_post_id":0,
                "found_in":"mentions"
            }
        }
    },
    {
        "id":61185698706886657,
        "source":"web",
        "location":"Seattle, WA, USA",
        "place":null,
        "geo":null,
        "in_reply_to_user_id":69410725,
        "is_reply_by_friend":true,
        "in_reply_to_post_id":61179112676528128,
        "in_rt_of_user_id":null,
        "reply_retweet_distance":0,
        "is_retweet_by_friend":false,
        "favorited":false,
        "all_retweets":0,
        "text":"@samwhoo Perhaps you can soothe your wounded heart with the warm microprocessors of a brand new, free, iPad 2? ;^)",
        "created_at":"Thu Apr 21 21:53:02 +0100 2011",
        "annotations":null,
        "truncated":false,
        "protected":false,
        "thinkup":{
            "retweet_count_cache":0,
            "reply_count_cache":1,
            "old_retweet_count_cache":0,
            "is_geo_encoded":0
        },
        "user":{
            "id":13205432,
            "location":"Seattle, WA, USA",
            "description":"Habitual edge case",
            "url":"http://trevorbramble.com/",
            "friend_count":187,
            "followers_count":270,
            "profile_image_url":"http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/1304895448/trevor_nyc_bw_normal.png",
            "name":"Trevor Bramble",
            "screen_name":"TrevorBramble",
            "statuses_count":5374,
            "created_at":"Thu Feb 07 14:32:32 +0000 2008",
            "utc_offset":3600,
            "avg_tweets_per_day":4.59,
            "last_updated":"2011-04-22 05:01:49",
            "thinkup":{
                "last_post":"0000-00-00 00:00:00",
                "last_post_id":60224776932835328,
                "found_in":"retweets"
            }
        }
    },
    {
        "id":61134153202151424,
        "source":"<a href=\"http://www.tweetdeck.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">TweetDeck</a>",
        "location":"Montreal, Canada",
        "place":null,
        "geo":null,
        "in_reply_to_user_id":69410725,
        "is_reply_by_friend":true,
        "in_reply_to_post_id":61133719125237760,
        "in_rt_of_user_id":null,
        "reply_retweet_distance":0,
        "is_retweet_by_friend":false,
        "favorited":false,
        "all_retweets":0,
        "text":"@samwhoo I know, same here! You should hear us speak component part codes out loud here at work, sounds even sillier. OH-Pa-Five-Five-One!",
        "created_at":"Thu Apr 21 18:28:12 +0100 2011",
        "annotations":null,
        "truncated":false,
        "protected":false,
        "thinkup":{
            "retweet_count_cache":0,
            "reply_count_cache":0,
            "old_retweet_count_cache":0,
            "is_geo_encoded":0
        },
        "user":{
            "id":15496351,
            "location":"Montreal, Canada",
            "description":"Prefer to enjoy the big picture than examine the individual pictures; take photos because I'm rubbish with a paintbrush and canvas.",
            "url":"http://angelostavrow.com",
            "friend_count":1122,
            "followers_count":774,
            "profile_image_url":"http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1177837673/bluemountains_normal.jpg",
            "name":"Angelo Stavrow",
            "screen_name":"AngeloStavrow",
            "statuses_count":8859,
            "created_at":"Sat Jul 19 23:01:16 +0100 2008",
            "utc_offset":3600,
            "avg_tweets_per_day":8.80,
            "last_updated":"2011-04-21 20:00:41",
            "thinkup":{
                "last_post":"2011-04-20 20:29:01",
                "last_post_id":60338425013878784,
                "found_in":"mentions"
            }
        }
    }
]