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Posting twitter thread using Twitter4j

I'm trying to figure out how to use Twitter4J to post a tweet thread using Twitter4J. I'm guessing it would be somehow using the StatusUpdate class, but the documentation is a bit sparse. Any pointers?

Solution

  • You should set inReplyToStatusId as latest posted status id for every tweet coming after first tweet. Default value for inReplyToStatusId is -1.

    Example:

    long inReplyToStatusId = -1
int counter = 0
int threadLimit = 5

while (counter < threadLimit){
    StatusUpdate statusUpdate = new StatusUpdate(Integer.toString(counter));
    statusUpdate.setInReplyToStatusId(inReplyToStatusId);

    Status updatedStatus = twitter.updateStatus(statusUpdate);
    inReplyToStatusId = updatedStatus.getId();
    counter++;
}