Mention

Represents a mention of a user within the content of a status.

Example

excerpt from GET status:

{
  "mentions": [
    {
      "id": "952529",
      "username": "alayna",
      "url": "https://desvox.es/users/alayna",
      "acct": "[e-mail]"
    },
    {
      "id": "14715",
      "username": "trwnh",
      "url": "https://mastodon.social/@trwnh",
      "acct": "trwnh"
    }
  ]
}

Required attributes

id

Description: The account id of the mentioned user. Type: String (cast from an integer, but not guaranteed to be a number) Version history: Added in 0.6.0

username

Description: The username of the mentioned user. Type: String Version history: Added in 0.6.0

acct

Description: The webfinger acct: URI of the mentioned user. Equivalent to username for local users, or username@domain for remote users. Type: String Version history: Added in 0.6.0

url

Description: The location of the mentioned user's profile. Type: String (URL) Version history: Added in 0.6.0

See also

• GET /api/v1/statuses/:id
• Status#mentions

Status