When performing historical tweets search with the Academic API, to obtain information whether a tweet is a retweet/quote/reply, the “referenced_tweets” field returns an array of tweet ids and type of reference. My doubt is: under which conditions can this array return more than one value?

I can think of one example right now:

If a person is replying to someone else but have also included a link to another Tweet as well (which is considered a quote) so that would have both a reply and quoted tweet value.

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