Media ids and quoted status with attachment_url

[richardhyland]

From testing if you have the following conditions statuses/update will fail

1. 140 characters
2. media_ids
3. attachment_url

It looks like if you use attachment_url and media_ids in conjunction with each other, the character count needs to include the length of the original status link.

Is this expected behaviour or a bug as the display_range does include the link to the quoted_status, omits the media url but DOES include both the quoted_status object and the media entities in the tweet response

[andypiper]

2. media_ids
3. attachment_url

These are mutually exclusive, since by adding media_ids to a Tweet, you are effectively generating a new “attachment” (images, rather than a quoted Tweet), and you cannot have more than one attachment on a Tweet. This is expected behaviour. I’ll see if I can find a way to clarify and improve the documentation on this point.

[richardhyland]

Sure that’s good to know, although it looks like the API technically supports it from an processing point of view as the return Tweet contains both media entities and quoted_status attributes, just the display range only hides the media link