Issue 21 - microblog-purple - a seperate window for replies

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Status:	New
Owner:	----
Cc:	sugree
Type-Enhancement
Priority-High

Reported by sajal83, Aug 05, 2008

It would be nice if we had a separate window for replies.

I mean let the replies come in the main window as it is, but replies should
also be visible in a different window. This would remove the need to visit
twitter.com/replies every now and then.

Also replies in the main window could be highlighted or something.

Comment 1 by sampad.s, Aug 05, 2008

True! Very much needed! But is it architecturally possible to make it real-time like 
summize!

Personally I use http://search.twitter.com for replies but lately it has started 
giving lame results i.e. missing some of the tweets, so can't even rely on it 
anymore (I believe it happened just after Twitter bought Summize).

Comment 2 by somsaks, Aug 05, 2008

This is possible. Actually, currently we have

1. twpublic -> public timeline
2. twuser -> user timeline
3. twitter.com -> friends' timeline

If you add user with the named above, it'll fetch the correspond timeline. So the
replies timeline is just another timeline set that we can fetch from.

However, this way, you'll always get the replies periodically (duplicate with
twitter.com). I don't think this'll be what you really need.

How about having a control command

/replies

To fetch all replies?

Cc: sugree

Comment 3 by somsaks, Aug 06, 2008

Change to "Enhancement"

Labels: -Type-Defect Type-Enhancement

Comment 4 by somsaks, Oct 31, 2008

part of this implemented in trunk/, with the /replies command.

Comment 5 by somsaks, Feb 17, 2009

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Labels: -Priority-Medium Priority-High

Comment 6 by phil.boswell, Apr 25, 2009

OK, I added a user named "twuser" but it's marked as "offline".

How do I enable it properly?

(using Pidgin 2.5.5 with Twitgin 0.2.1)

Comment 7 by cathelijne.hornstra, Apr 28, 2009

Same here. Pidgin 2.5.5 and twitgin 0.2.1
I'd love to see separate windows for @replies and dm's. I added a buddy twuser, but
it remains offline. Has this functionality been removed?

/replies does work BTW, but since I get quite a few of them, having to manually type
a command all the time just doesn't cut it.

Comment 8 by phil.boswell, Apr 28, 2009

Actually I *am* seeing some activity in the "twuser" tab, but so far it's been
echoing my outgoing tweets, which wasn't quite what I was expecting.

Sadly Pidgin crashed overnight, so wasn't watching when I actually got some replies.
I'll keep my eyes peeled.

Comment 9 by cathelijne.hornstra, Apr 29, 2009

Phil, you are right, I just noticed that this morning when I posted a reply to
someone. After I fix some connectivity issues (ie, go to the store and buy a new AP),
I'll do some tests.

Comment 10 by phil.boswell, Apr 29, 2009

Nope, confirmed: it's recording *my* tweets, even posted via the web from work, but
nothing directed *at* me.

Comment 11 by phil.boswell, Apr 29, 2009

Maybe you could keep the "twuser" functionality, and add "twreplies" to monitor
"replies & mentions"?