kogg/hovercards

Reddit comments shown on Twitter posts

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jeffreymcclain commented

Example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/59l7t3/pixel_coming_to_tmobile_john_legere_hints_an/

When hovering over the post title, HoverCards correctly previews the Tweet. However, if I scroll down in the preview, I see Reddit comments rather than Twitter comments.

  • chrome v54 on Windows 10
saiichihashimoto commented

This is because twitter doesn't have a replies API. In earlier versions of HoverCards, we would do a search on tweets in an attempt to find those replies. But this missed the correct tweets and produced the incorrect tweets far more often than actually showing the correct tweets. Furthermore, twitter only lets you search the last 1% of tweets so improving our search won't do much. We decided to remove this functionality entirely since it wasn't actually providing any value.