Twitter Threaded Conversation

Question

I've been wanting to create something like this: http://twitter.theinfo.org/

A script which finds replies to a tweet and shows them in a threaded fashion like this:

http://twitter.theinfo.org/45967981225840640

Any help on where to start or if there's an implementation already out there for me to tinker with?

Answer 1

Going up the thread is easy because replies have in_reply_to_statu_id but finding replies to a status is near impossible. You have have to maintain a search looking for tweets to a specific user and check if they are a reply in which case save them.