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In the Twitter API, status replies are tweets that begin with an '@' symbol followed by the username of the person being replied to. These tweets are considered replies to a specific user and are not visible to all of the user's followers unless they follow both the original poster and the person being replied to.

In contrast, explicit mentions in the Twitter API are tweets that include the '@' symbol followed by a username anywhere within the tweet. These tweets are not considered replies and are visible to all of the user's followers.

To distinguish between status replies and explicit mentions in the Twitter API, you can check if the tweet has a 'inreplytouserid' field. If this field is populated, it indicates that the tweet is a reply. If the field is null, then the tweet is an explicit mention.