How do I create a thread of tweets? 🧵

[MarkOSullivan94]

Due to the character limitation of tweets, threads are a popular method of communicating much more detailed information in the form of a series of tweets which are chained to each other.

How can I implement a thread with this package? Would love an example.

Example of a thread: https://twitter.com/argentHQ/status/1516831519599472641

[myConsciousness]

Hi @MarkOSullivan94 , thanks for using this package! 🐦

This package supports tweeting for making a thread, you can make it with following code :)

import 'package:twitter_api_v2/twitter_api_v2.dart' as v2;

Future<void> main() async {
  final twitter = v2.TwitterApi(bearerToken: 'YOUR_TOKEN_HERE');

  try {
    await twitter.tweetsService.createTweet(
      text: 'This is a thread!',

      // To represent a thread, the reply feature is used.
      reply: v2.TweetReplyParam(
        // Specify the ID of the tweet for which you want to create a thread.
        inReplyToTweetId: '1561165898718752769',
      ),
    );
  } on v2.TwitterException catch (e) {
    print(e);
  }
}

And the following tweet is the result of executing the above code. You can see that a thread has been created in the form of a connection to the parent tweet :)

https://twitter.com/_kato_shinya/status/1561165898718752769

[MarkOSullivan94]

Hi @myConsciousness apologies for the slow reply, I've tried this out and this is working great!

Have you considered adding an additional public API method to do this automatically with a long String where if it exceeds the character limit imposed by Twitter then it'll convert it into a thread and add a reply to the original tweet?

From there you could do add additional configuration for creating threads such as:

• Having a thread tweet total e.g (1/5)
• Option to have only the tweet count on the opening tweet
• Having a number prefix before the content of each tweet like the way is done in the thread I linked
• Or perhaps having the number as a suffix at the end of the tweet e.g. (1)

[myConsciousness]

Hi @MarkOSullivan94 , thanks for very interesting suggestions :)

This package does not yet provide such utilities, but such features would improve the UX for developers.

I think the method of creating threads by prefixing or suffixing them with a page number is a great idea. If we were to implement this, we could add a method that accepts multiple objects representing the pages of the thread. That way, the developer can create threads without being aware of paging.

This is a very interesting idea, although there will be things to consider :)