yeah, that’s worked for a little while. the drawback is that twitter’s API doesn’t have a way to get a tweet’s replies, so everyone who needs to do that currently searches for @-mentions of the author and filters the search results by the `in_reply_to_status_id` field. details: [http://indiewebcamp.com/backfeed#Twitter](http://indiewebcamp.com/backfeed#Twitter). mentionless replies break that.
so, beware of mentionless replies if you want any twitter API clients (e.g. bridgy :P) to work.
@snarfed ah, I tend to scrape twitter.com using github.com/indieweb/php-mf2-shim as it’s forced to return results which are useful to humans :)