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Reply-as-Direct Message to tweets
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The company has this in progress.
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Inappropriate?We want this feature too, but we can't do it yet...
The user interaction for this isn't simple. While many Twitter clients let you reply as DM or DM any user, Twitter only let's you DM to followers. The result is an error message.
We think Tweed should only let you attempt to DM if the user if a follower, rather than provide an error message about failure that could have been avoided.
However, twitter limits 100 API calls for an account, per hour and it amazing how quickly you can use this up. To correctly enable reply-as-DM for any tweet, you would have to check if the user is a follower, which eats into your budget.
Since only single digit of Twitter users use DM at all, we are going to either wait for Twitter API rate limits to go up or for some other caching solution that let's us not eat into our rate budget so aggressively.
