twirssi fails to pull reply context in some cases

[zigdon]

Importing here from IRC:

15:16 <~zigdon> I follow X and Y, but not Z
15:16 <~zigdon> Z posts, X replies (I don't see this, #fixreplies)
15:16 <~zigdon> Y replies to X's reply - I do see this, since I follow both
15:16 <~zigdon> but I have no context
15:17 <~zigdon> but given twirssi's auto context fetching, shouldn't it have pulled X's tweet, since it's context I haven't seen?
15:17 <~zigdon> if not... why?

[sberghel]

The Twitter website (and their iPhone app) does this too. To use your example, if what actually happened looks like this:

Z: I have an idea
X: @z I like ideas!
Y: @x @z Ideas are horrible

all that I see on the website/my phone is
Y: @x @z Ideas are horrible

[zigdon]

Right - it's how twitter is "supposed" to work. Twirssi works around that by manually fetching context for replies to tweets you didn't see. But for some reason, the case above, fails.