Use API to exclude replies in Twitter Profile widget

[simonwheatley]

Issue reported by @sc0ttkclark over on the WP support forums: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/twitterprofileconstruct_profile_url?replies=1

Please add to the construct_profile_url in TwitterProfile, the exclusion of replies. Otherwise, if a Twitter account consists of mostly replies at a given moment, the count won't matter and will only end up giving Twitter Tracker the non-replies along with replies, leaving the true tweets used -- less than the count was intended to return.

The only drawback here is that Twitter's API is busted, if you say exclude replies, it's still return less than the count you specify to Twitter directly, as their code must be doing the exact same thing as Twitter Tracker :)

Once they do fix their API though, this tweak will really kick in and increasing the max_tweets will no longer be necessary to pad for this eventuality. For now, I also suggest increasing the max_tweets to multiplying by 3.

protected function construct_profile_url() { $include_retweets = $this->include_retweets ? 1 : 0; $hide_replies = $this->hide_replies ? 1 : 0; $url = 'http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=%s&count=%d&include_rts=%s&exclude_replies=%s'; $this->profile_url = sprintf( $url, urlencode( $this->username ), (int) $this->max_tweets * 3, $include_retweets, $hide_replies ); }