- status = (statusTxt.encode('utf8', 'replace'))
- twitter.statuses.update(status=status)
+ replies = []
+ ptr = re.compile("@[\w_]+")
+ while statusTxt:
+ s = ptr.match(statusTxt)
+ if s and s.start() == 0:
+ replies.append(statusTxt[s.start():s.end()])
+ statusTxt = statusTxt[s.end() + 1:]
+ else:
+ break
+ replies = " ".join(replies)
+ if len(replies) >= 140:
+ # just go back
+ statusTxt = replies
+ replies = ""
+
+ splitted = []
+ while statusTxt:
+ limit = 140 - len(replies)
+ if len(statusTxt) > limit:
+ end = string.rfind(statusTxt, ' ', 0, limit)
+ else:
+ end = limit
+ splitted.append(" ".join((replies, statusTxt[:end])))
+ statusTxt = statusTxt[end:]
+
+ if options['invert_split']:
+ splitted.reverse()
+ for status in splitted:
+ twitter.statuses.update(status=status)