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Monday, May 12, 2008

How @replies work on Twitter (and how they might)

I see a lot of confusion around how "at replies"—tweets that start with an @ and then a username—work on Twitter. E.g.:
@Veronica I vote they should be $2.00 each. Cut down on junk mail. Isn't that the only use of postal mail these days, anyway?
10:59 AM May 09, 2008 from web in reply to Veronica

Starting my update with "@veronica" designates that I'm addressing her, specifically, much as you would in a group conversation. Also like a group conversation, she's not the only one who can see what I'm saying. If I wanted to "whisper" something instead, I'd start my message with "d veronica"—what we call a "direct message." (A person must be following you in order for you to direct message them, but not to @reply them.)

As you may know, @replies were not originally part of Twitter. They were embraced by the community first, and then we built them into the system. First, we linked the username (when using the web interface), then we added a replies tab, so you could see replies to you from people you weren't following. We also added a setting to determine what @replies you see (more about that in a minute). And most recently, we added the "swoosh" to the web interface, so you could more easily reply. Other Twitter clients have also embraced @replies in cool ways.

Today, @replies are a critical part of how Twitter works. However, they're not perfect. In fact, some people are either loath to use them or annoyed by them (or both). I believe a big reason for this is that's it's not obvious exactly how they work. In fact, I talk to even advanced Twitter users on a regular basis whom I end up explaining what the @replies setting does and who see what replies.

@Replies To You
If someone @replies you—note, this means they start a tweet with @yourusername—you will see that in your main timeline if you follow the person. But you'll see it in your replies tab, whether you follow them or not (unless you've blocked them):

replies tab

In some desktop clients, like Twhirl, you can see @replies to you, along with all the updates from people follow, which is neat.

The Setting
There is an @ Replies setting you can find under Settings / Notices:

@ Replies setting

This has nothing to do with @replies directed to you. This is about what @replies you see from people you follow. The default—@ replies to the people I'm following—is probably what you have it set on (98% of people do). That means, if you're following me, but not following @veronica, you wouldn't see the tweet above (unless you went to my profile).

The beauty of this is that I can feel free to @reply Veronica without worrying about the fact that only a subset of my followers also follow Veronica, so they won't know what I'm talking about. My followers will only see my update if they follow both of us (if they have their setting on the default).

We're trying to avoid the situation of you hearing someone answer a question when you didn't hear the question (for instance). Also, you don't have to hear answers to the question from people you don't want to hear from. (If you're not following them, you won't see their answer.)

This is the main thing that people are confused about, I've found. There are good reasons for this. For one, it didn't use to work like this. (Since @replies were just normal tweets at one point, all your followers would see all of your, no matter who you were replying to.) Secondly, we don't explain it very well (thus, the need for this post). And third, some people do have their setting at "all @ replies"—so they see all the replies people they're following make, even if they're not following the person being replied to. Many people I've talked to have this setting on and don't realize what it actually does. (Usually, they just want to see @replies directed to them).

Conclusion
1) You should feel free to @reply people and not worry about it being out of context to some of your followers. In general, they won't see it.

2) If you're seeing @replies directed to people you don't follow and don't want to, check your setting.

3) This is obviously too confusing. We want to make some changes to make it more clear. We could clarify the setting. But my preference is to take out the setting altogether and just make it work like the default. That way, it works the same for everyone. (If you have strong opinions on this, leave a comment.)

Cool Tools
There are a lot of other ways we'd like to enhance this functionality. But for now, Quotably has worked around the opaqueness of conversations on Twitter and aggregates @replies in a useful way. Also, Summize let's you see all replies to someone.

Tracking You
Another question I get is how to get the equivalent of the Replies tab (@replies to you, especially from people you don't follow) over SMS. The work-around for this (for some people) is just to Track your name. E.g., I send 'track ev' and get a message every time someone mentions @ev. This is not ideal, because Track currently ignores the "@" symbol, so if you have username that is common, you'll get lots of irrelevant stuff. We plan to fix that. (Also, yes, we will get the replies tab on m.twitter.com. Soon.)

66 Comments:

Blogger DAL said...

As a relative newcomer I can tell you all of this is very intuitive both within the community and on your site.

Thanks for making such a cool toy/tool for our lives.

@davealevine

5/12/08 12:08 PM  
Blogger Todd said...

You make it sound like @ replies that DON'T start with @, but refer to a Twitter account inside the message somewhere, are treated differently somehow. Is this true?

5/12/08 12:11 PM  
Blogger Jason said...

Leaving a comment as requested, I have my @ Replies set to All @ replies as I find it is a good way to find new followers as my friends base on Twitter is primarily local people and often people I follow will @ someone else that I like the context of so I end up following that person.

Twitter user: jaseone

5/12/08 12:14 PM  
Blogger Roguepuppet said...

I hope you never turn off the "all @ replies" setting just to try to avoid confusion. I have learned many interesting things and met interesting people this way. A lot like the overheard tidbit at a cocktail party, when you respond with " I am not meaning to pry, but did you just say....." and zoom. new alliances are built. This has been a boon for me and one of the things I love most about Twitter.

5/12/08 12:16 PM  
Blogger ~lannalee~ said...

I would like to have more control to the replies setting. I like to see replies to people I am not following. I find new friends this way.

My preference would be to have a global setting and then be able to turn off (or on) replies for certain people I am following. (So if one is particularly chatty, I can turn off their replies.)

I definitely would rather read all my followers replies than not. It makes things more interesting!

5/12/08 12:18 PM  
Blogger tetfsu said...

ev,
For what it's worth, I didn't find your setup too hard to follow. I thought it was intuitive (but maybe I'm screwed up so that's why it made sense to me... who knows.)

I'm one of those weird people who have my setting to all @ replies. I find a lot of fun and useful information by just watching the "twittersphere" (is that a word) kind of swirl around.

One nice feature would be to allow you to group people you follow into the 3 @reply categories. There are some people who I want to follow, but I don't care to see any of the replies sent back to them. There are others who I enjoy watching the ebb and flow so I want to watch all of it, and of course there are those in between.

Thanks.

5/12/08 12:19 PM  
Blogger JibberJobber Guy said...

@ev, great explanation, thanks for that.

On another note, I'd love to see some improvements in the "so-and-so is following you." It's really simple... you can see the details on my blog here.

Thanks!

5/12/08 12:19 PM  
OpenID bardow said...

This is a great article, thanks for the clarifications! I would say that although I agree that the settings should be more clear, I'm not sure I'd like for the option to be removed. I actually like using the "All @ replies" setting as a way to stumble across other users I may want to follow. So I like being able to see people I follow respond to others I don't for this reason.

5/12/08 12:19 PM  
OpenID ari said...

I hope you'll keep the ability to see all @s from people you're following as an option.

It helps to find interesting conversations as well as new people to follow.

It also would be great to be able to have the option to see all @replies to you in your timeline (I don't use track because I don't have unlimited SMS).

It would also be helpful to have a number on the replies tab perhaps of the replies that day (or perhaps a color change when there are new replies).

I'll sometimes not check it for a few days and miss replies.

5/12/08 12:23 PM  
Anonymous pmhesse said...

Thanks @ev. I am one of those who had this setting weird.

I suggest you leave as is, and link this blog post where the setting is made. I have found people to follow by hearing all @ replies.

Also would love replies *and* DM tabs on m.twitter.com!

5/12/08 12:24 PM  
OpenID geekmommy said...

I wouldn't take out the ability to see other peoples' @ replies even if you don't follow the other person.

When I was first new on Twitter, having the ability to see ALL of someone's stream was the way I found interesting new people - I'd see the user @ing someone else repeatedly, and click thru to see the other half of the conversation.

Obviously, when you start following a lot of people - or if you follow someone noisy (like me) - the 'see all @'s' can be a bit overwhelming.

I think all you really need to do is change the descriptors.


What I see from other people
-----------------------------
"See ALL tweets (including @'s to people I don't follow)"
"See only tweets that are general or @'ed to someone else I'm already following"
"See no @'s unless they are directed to me alone."

Not that confusing if you put it that way.

5/12/08 12:24 PM  
Blogger Debbie said...

Nice post. It's true that lots of people are confused about @replies. It hasn't always been clear to me who can see what and why sometimes people don't seem to see my replies to them if they aren't following me. I personally really like seeing all of them, kind of like eavesdropping and finding interesting conversationalists, i.e. good people to follow, that are friends of my friends.

debdeb

5/12/08 12:29 PM  
OpenID srcasm said...

Wow, that setting makes more sense now. I was always confused by the wording. It may be a simple word choice change but I would prefer you leave the option available. Maybe it could go under an "Advanced" tab but I know that I like to be able to control the information I see.

In addition, having the option of direct messaging someone who is not follow me (if they have a setting turned on [which is not currently in existence]) could be helpful as well.

5/12/08 12:29 PM  
Blogger Kevin said...

That's awesome Evan. There was much guessing between my twitter friends as to how @replies worked.

5/12/08 12:30 PM  
Anonymous lcreekmo said...

I'm glad you wrote this post, because I'm going to go check my settings right now. I actually PREFER to see @replies that other people make to those whom I don't follow -- I've found lots of new Twitter friends that way. I figure they are also interested in the things my existing friends are, you know?

5/12/08 12:34 PM  
Blogger DAL said...

For some reason flock and others haven't figured out the proper default settings on this. Show all @ replies in the stream...bummer.

5/12/08 12:38 PM  
Blogger Chris Foresman said...

I personally prefer to see all @replies from people I'm following at directed at me. For a lot of reasons I don't want to follow every single person that follows me, but when I ask a question I would like to see their reply if they have one.

5/12/08 12:38 PM  
Anonymous Gregory Pittman said...

Keep in mind that @username isn't used just as a reply anymore. I might @username a friend with a comment to make he/she sees it, but perhaps I want others to see it, as well. If you resort to the default setting, you're removing functionality from a subset of your users. I think your safest and widest ranging option is to live with the confusion and try to mitigate it with more instructive selections in the settings.

5/12/08 12:45 PM  
Blogger psd said...

I like being able to reference to one or more users using the @ symbol as part of a sentence, but really, really dislike the constraint that it must be the first character on the line to appear in the replies tab.

5/12/08 12:48 PM  
OpenID als said...

Ev,

I actually like seeing answers to questions I don't see: they often point to interesting people and conversations. Furthermore, it's quite disturbing to open a person's page and realize that you've missed tweets that are part of a conversation.

I'd love it if you brought that noise back ;)

Thanks for the explanatory post.

Alex

5/12/08 12:48 PM  
Blogger Chantelle said...

Each time I introduce someone to twitter the "@" reply has confused them. They conflate it with the email "@" and send me @ messages when they really should send "d" messages.

It is easy enough to get on to, but I think it discourages new non-early adopters.

"private" and "public" are the more familiar terms and don't instantly come to mind with @ and d for new users.

5/12/08 1:00 PM  
Anonymous andymurd said...

I find @replies quite logical and straightforward but I'd love to be able to @reply to two or more people at once.

For example:

@hilary, @obama stop your bickering!

I guess the comma between names should be optional.

5/12/08 1:04 PM  
Blogger cori said...

I personally feel strongly that if you're going to leave the default as "only see @ replies to people you follow" you shouldn't remove the option and stick everyone with the default. I very stronlgy want to be able to see @replies to other people that the people I follow converse with.

FWIW, I didn't find this at all confusing - when I saw the options I thought it was pretty clear what it was supposed to do. I disagree with the current default state, but that's just because that's not my default - I set it to "all @ replies" as soon as I saw the setting and promtply forgot what the default even was.

5/12/08 1:12 PM  
OpenID manton.org said...

I understand the desire to simplify, but removing the option to see all @replies would be disappointing. There are two important uses for this:

1) As a way to discover new people to follow or to read some tweets from. If a bunch of people I am following are responding to the same person, chances are good that I'll find what they are saying interesting too.

2) As a way to follow conversations. If I'm not following Veronica but 20 people I am following are all following Veronica and they send her a reply, the conversation is probably something I want to see and it may spill out into non-reply tweets. If I didn't see the @veronica earlier I would be even more confused and would miss out on the discussion.

I think you'll find that just by documenting this behavior and improving the text in the settings to be more clear, this issue will be minimized. Removing this feature seems drastic to me and would cripple a portion of how I use Twitter.

Good luck!

5/12/08 1:14 PM  
OpenID quepol said...

Please, please, PLEASE don't get rid of the option to see all @ replies. I prefer to use the web site over the many clients (though twhirl is probably my favorite). If you take away this feature I would likely never visit the site...

I would guess that most people are satisfied with the default and and have never even looked at the settings page. Don't degrade your service for those of us who DO want to tinker with our settings.

5/12/08 1:23 PM  
OpenID quepol said...

Also, just FYI, I think you actually make the situation a bit more confusing with this paragraph:

The beauty of this is that I can feel free to @reply Veronica without worrying about the fact that only a subset of my followers also follow Veronica, so they won't know what I'm talking about. My followers will only see my update if they follow both of us (if they have their setting on the default).

It sort of makes it sound like you are controlling what your followers see. When that setting controls what you see. Anyhoo, just my $0.02... might want to rephrase that bit.

5/12/08 1:27 PM  
Anonymous fiz said...

I have tried the various @reply options and I keep coming back to 'all @replies' simply because I find interesting people to follow, and, I don't think it actually is very confusing. I feel that seeing @replies only from people I follow, makes my timeline feel too closed and "cliquey".

Good news that you're working on the track feature and the m.twitter replies tab! How about fixing the 'block' function so that people that are blocked are truly blocked too? (there were some major issues with a spammer just recently, as discussed here and here)

Cheers

5/12/08 1:33 PM  
Blogger Michael said...

I have to concur with keeping the setting - I've followed at least 5 or 6 new people from @ replies that I wasn't party to, but found interesting.

5/12/08 1:39 PM  
Blogger Ev. said...

Wow, thanks for all the feedback.

One quick note for all the people who really like the "all @ replies" setting because it helps you discover new people: What if discovering new people on Twitter wasn't so hard? It seems like there could be much more efficient ways to do that.

5/12/08 1:39 PM  
Anonymous Martin Jamieson said...

I'm a bit confused as to why you wouldn't leave the default setting as seeing all @ replies... I think seeing parts of a conversations, whether they were started by someone you are following or not is a very integral part of the Twitter experience.

Fair enough if you want to change your setting to only see @ replies to people you follow, but for a default setting, IMO that's heading the wrong way.

Also, I don't think you've looked at the situation where not only the @ symbol isn't the first character of the tweet, but also cases where people have 2-3 @usernames in their post.

5/12/08 1:43 PM  
Blogger Ev. said...

@Martin Jamieson

You make a good point about starting with 2-3 @usernames. We'd like to account for that.

5/12/08 1:47 PM  
OpenID manton.org said...

Ev, new ways to discover people would be great, but the all replies option is more than that. Sometimes I don't want to follow someone permanently, but I do want to see parts of a conversation that are directed at them.

5/12/08 1:48 PM  
Anonymous pmhesse said...

@ev - what more efficient way of discovering interesting people to follow? I can think of nothing more efficient than reading at least one side of the discussion between them and the people you've already determined are interesting, and links to quickly get to the other side.

Of course being able to reply to (and link to) specific tweets without killing 20/140 characters with a URL might be nice. That way rather than scrolling through someone's history to try and find the context of an @reply, you could get the exact link. Nothing will probably be perfect here though.

5/12/08 1:53 PM  
Blogger Ask Jim Cobb said...

@replies really work if you use them correctly. Thank you very much for the.

5/12/08 1:54 PM  
Blogger Mike said...

Can I vote for leaving the options the way they are? I kind of like seeing intriguing @ replies and then tracking down the conversation on the other end -- it's a good way to find other interesting people.

5/12/08 1:55 PM  
Anonymous Dan said...

We live on @ replies here at StrawPoll.

5/12/08 2:13 PM  
Anonymous colin said...

Don't get rid of "all @ replies" I love that feature. Like overhearing a conversation at a party, it leads me to interesting people and ideas!

5/12/08 2:19 PM  
Blogger Gexbert said...

Please don't remove the all @ replies feature. I love it for all the reasons previously stated.

5/12/08 2:20 PM  
Blogger ரவிசங்கர் said...

can i see only @replies sent 2 me from people i follow in the recent tab? i have set the option as no @replies as the other two options were flooding me with info.

5/12/08 2:23 PM  
Blogger Surferbill said...

I'm an 'all @ replies' guy, and I would miss out on so much if I wasn't.

I think the setting is fine, I'd concentrate more on the conversation threading rather than worry about the @ replies.

Thanks Ev!

@Surferbill

5/12/08 2:25 PM  
Anonymous Stormy said...

I agree with previous posters:
- I like seeing all the @'s.
- I'd like to reply to more than one person.

Can you tell how many of Twitter users have opted for seeing all the @'s?

5/12/08 2:43 PM  
Blogger Josh Nelson said...

Please keep the All @ replies - it is a good way to see what conversations are going on "around" you and not just staying in a box. It is kind of like over hearing someone's conversation next to you, but you are able to "rewind" that conversation by clicking through the "in replies to". If the "answer" is intriguing it prompts me to see who asked the question and thus maybe find someone new to follow.

5/12/08 2:45 PM  
Anonymous Sean said...

I second what mike says. Lurking on other conversations gives me a way to see who people I follow follow and the nature of their convo which may result in me following that person. I knew this was always the case with how replies were handled, but I didn't know there was a setting for it; I just changed my preferences so I see all replies. Do not change this!

5/12/08 2:49 PM  
Blogger ChimChim said...

@ev, do the @replies function as a permalink? in other words, if I want to reply to a tweet the user made three posts ago, will clicking on the swish reply to that specific tweet?

5/12/08 2:49 PM  
Blogger Todd said...

IF the explanation needs to be THAT long ( 4,225+ words ), we need to make some changes to the feature, or something.

Love Twitter, but yeah, the @replies needs to improve. Let us user figure that out on a dedicated wiki or something.

5/12/08 2:53 PM  
Blogger Adam Epstein said...

I would be interested in being able to have the option to include or not-include @ replies on the feed that is exported to a Web site. I'd use the @ replies more (well, at all) if they didn't get automatically included into that feed.

5/12/08 3:29 PM  
Anonymous Erika Jurney said...

Ack, being able to see the @s to people I'm not following is just about the best way to find new people to follow. Instead of removing that function, please just amp up your docs to help people out. Thanks!

@ErikaJurney

5/12/08 3:38 PM  
Blogger Andy Lindeman said...

Sometimes I find new people to follow because I see all @ replies. If I only saw @ replies to people I followed, I would miss out on this.

Just a thought!

5/12/08 3:45 PM  
OpenID vlb said...

Please keep the setting! Like Mike, I've used this in the past as a way to look for interesting people to follow. I see one side of an intriguing conversation and... ohh... off I go to see the other part.

On the other hand, currently I'm using the "only @replies for people you follow" setting, because it cuts way down on the stream. But that should be MY choice (not your choice).

5/12/08 3:56 PM  
OpenID vlb said...

@ev: What if discovering new people on Twitter wasn't so hard? It seems like there could be much more efficient ways to do that.

If is a big word. :)There are a bunch of tools that claim to help me discover new people. None of them have wrked as well as following back a current conversation.

How about making that efficient way first... then come back and we'll talk again. :)

5/12/08 3:58 PM  
Blogger Melissa said...

I would prefer to have to the setting options. Currently, my @replies st to all and I would hate to see that change. Having a choice is always better. Well, almost always.

5/12/08 4:03 PM  
OpenID steaders said...

I like having a choice about the @ setting. I've found new people to follow simply by listening to one side of a conversation and deciding to hunt down the other side.
In fact I'd like a bit more granular control so that I could set a default for most people I follow, and then make changes to individuals as required. That way I could follow all the @reples by a select few, but not from the big hitters like @Scobalizer

5/12/08 4:14 PM  
Blogger jackr said...

@ev - I did find the prefs page confusing, until I read this blog entry; perhaps this is the real problem. It says "follow all replies," which sounds like a whole lotta traffic (basically, all of public?). But your blog says it only means "all replies realated to someone you follow," a much much more manageable and interesting list. So: change the initial/default to @all, and fix up the wording a bit, them's my votes.

5/12/08 4:15 PM  
Blogger Qthrul said...

This is ripe for good comedy misdirection.

It is similar to those dropped call awkward silence moments in the mobile phone industry.

5/12/08 4:35 PM  
Blogger Craig said...

There's no better way than with all @'s to find new people OR keep up to date with what my friends are talking to others about. they're my friends! They talk about topics I'm interested in, I might want to comment on that occasionally. Most of the time it's that I've seen a name I know from elsewhere and immediately add them. That alone makes them invaluable.

A couple of times I've seen people reply to questions not knowing the answers and have replied to them and they've relayed to the other person. So it has it's other uses.

I really don't see how you can create a better way to find new people than growing your existing social graph from those with similar interests to you than from those in your friend network you watch as it unfolds.

I don't want to have to visit the website when I want to find or add new people. I find adding people with the web interface testing, especially if I'm using the IM interface and want them in there. Having to click, wait, click the arrow, then click IM is a bad design. It's easier to follow someone by typing it in IM in order to subscribe to them in IM - however doing so, protected accounts will only be subscribed to on the web if you get approved. Really annoying having to then remember to go back and check follow IM for that user.

Making @'s clearer in the interface seems like a good move. Display examples of the functionality as users select the options or something. Grey out the replies they'd miss out on if they selected "@replies to people i'm following".

If on the other hand your hell bent on getting rid of all @'s, I have to wonder if it's not a scaling decision. :)

5/12/08 5:22 PM  
OpenID bez said...

Hi ev. Like others have said, and for the reasons they have enumerated, I hope you keep the "all @replies" option.

The only thing new I learned from your post, which surprised me, is that apparently I will still see @replies directed at me even when "no @replies" is selected. I always avoided that option because I assumed it meant I would miss out of all @replies, including my own. If the functionality is as I understood you to describe it, then I think some vigorous new copywriting is in order.

Best, Joe

5/12/08 5:32 PM  
Blogger laanba said...

Wow, I'm going to be the TOTAL oddball and ask that you please leave things as they are because I use the no @ replies option and I love it.

I check replies directed to me under the replies tab and Twitterific shows them to me automatically, but I like reading the core of what people are doing without the side conversations.

I think people always like options and it just may be a matter of rewording the choices.

5/12/08 5:49 PM  
Blogger Justin said...

Please don't kill the all @ replies for the 2% of us that use them. It's a very valuable tool to find new people to follow. 75% of people I follow came through that method.

5/12/08 7:39 PM  
Blogger Danny Sullivan said...

Gosh -- learned something and also found it confusing.

First, I wasn't aware that @replies only worked if they were at the start of a twit. I think you should change that. If someone @replies another Twitterer, I think that's being done as a way to effectively link to that Twitterer. Consider it a reply regardless of where it appears.

Second, I've read and reread the the current default and just don't get the logic behind it. By default, I should see the replies sent from one person that I follow to another person I follow? Since I follow them both, I'm going to see those twits anyway in my main timeline. So this doesn't seem to do anything special. But maybe I'm not getting it.

Third, I think you want different behaviors for your main timelines versus the reply tab. Can I suggest these options, which can be set individually for the timeline & the replies tab:

1) Follower Replies: Show me @replies only from people I follow.
-- Timeline: ON
-- Replies Tab: ON

(Note that @replies from people you follow are also regular twitter messages, as well. So it's not recommended you change the defaults, as you might miss a message you want to see. To send and receive messages only a particular person will see, read more about Direct Messages)

2) Any Replies: Show me any @replies that mention my Twitter name.
-- Timeline: OFF
-- Replies Tab: ON

(By default, Twitter shows you any mentions of your name only on your replies tab. This is done as a way to help you discover new people but without introducing potential noise into your main timeline. Note that if you get too many @replies from a particular person or unwanted ones on a regular basis, you can use the Block tool to block that person from sending further ones to you)

3) Follower Of Follower Replies: Show me @replies sent to people I follow.

-- Timeline: OFF
-- Replies Tab: OF

(This is a handy way to expand your social horizons further. You can see how people you do NOT follow are responding to people you DO follow. It's an easy way to discover new people you may wish to follow).

5/13/08 2:39 AM  
Blogger Dale Innis said...

Pleeeeease keep the options! I have mine set to see all @ replies: this is one of the main ways that I find interesting new people on Twitter, and finding interesting new people is one of the best things about the service!

please please please... :)

5/13/08 5:40 AM  
Blogger Qrystal said...

I like the "all @ replies" option, for the same reasons as others have said, but I think we all agree that rewording it would help.

How about:

Show me:
- all @ replies to anyone
- @ replies to me and to people I'm following
- @ replies only to me

5/13/08 7:25 AM  
Anonymous Kevin Dente said...

>take out the setting altogether

PLEASE don't. I'm quite fond of that feature. It's a great way of finding new people to follow, as well as hop in on an interesting conversation you might have missed.

Will we ever have Twirl's all-in-one timeline (replies from non-friends) in the Twitter web UI?

5/13/08 12:49 PM  
Blogger Stevi Deter said...

It might be worthwhile to put up a poll on this issue, to get a more digestible result.

Add me to the list of people who want "all @ replies" as an option, as that's how I find the interesting convos.

@smd

5/13/08 1:01 PM  
OpenID IDisposable said...

Please do NOT remove the All option. I want to see all @replies to discover new interesting people to follow. Direct messages are for privacy.

5/13/08 2:34 PM  
OpenID damonclinkscales.com said...

Nice post.

Please don't do away with the ability to
see all replies. I like seeing who my follower's are chatting with, even if I don't already follow them. I sometimes add value to their conversation or even decide to follow someone new as a result of the ability to see this stuff.

Thank you.

5/13/08 3:08 PM  
Blogger Ev. said...

Thanks for all the feedback!

I'm going to close comments now. Your voice has been hear. May follow up here with a post in the future.

5/13/08 6:50 PM  

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