How to access the tweet history conversation using TweetSharp? - twitter

Question

I am trying to access a tweet conversation history using TweetSharp.
The requirement is like, if I use id of one tweet item it should
return me the whole thread that followed before that tweet item.
But could not find such method exposed through TwittertService, where
I can pass the current Tweet _id and get the conversation details.
I followed the following approach to get the collection (list) ie,
List<TwitterStatus> list = new List<TwitterStatus>();
private void GetReplied(TwitterStatus twitter, TwitterResponse twitterResponse)
{
if (twitter.InReplyToStatusId != null)
{
long statusID = (long)twitter.InReplyToStatusId;
this.ts.GetTweet(statusID, (twitterRecursive,
twitterResponseRecursive) =>
{
list.Add(twitterRecursive);
if (twitter.InReplyToStatusId != null)
{
this.GetReplied(twitterRecursive,
twitterResponseRecursive);
}
});
}
else
{
Debug.WriteLine(list.Count);
foreach (TwitterStatus status in list)
{
Debug.WriteLine(status.Text);
}
}
}
this.ts.GetTweet(<tweet Id>, twitterResponse) =>
{
list.Add(twitter);
this.GetReplied(twitter, twitterResponse);
});
Just wanted to have your advice, on that. Do we have any such method
with TweetSharp or any alternative approach can be implemented?
Really appreciate your help.

Answer 1

Yep, that's how you'll have to do it: start with a tweet and walk its in_reply_to_status_id chain.
One thing I do, although it may not be applicable to you, is check a local cache of tweets before fetching from Twitter to see if I already fetched the tweet being replied to.
As for libraries that make this easier, I don't know of any. Regardless of whether they expose a more streamlined method, under the covers they'll still have to perform the process that you implemented in your code.
To see how another library approached this task, take a look at this Twitterizer sample.