http://disqus.com/people/antifreeze/enWed, 13 May 2009 02:59:20 -0000http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2009/05/twitters-most-moronic-change-removing-reply-settings/#comment-9272702GetSatisfaction link to restore @ replies here: <a href="http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/topics/we_want_all_replies_reinstated" rel="nofollow">http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/topics/we_wa...</a>antifreezeWed, 13 May 2009 02:59:20 -0000http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2009/05/twitters-most-moronic-change-removing-reply-settings/#comment-9269684Right, but even then, just because a tweet starts with an @ doesn't mean it's a direct reply to that person!<br><br>For instance: @orian just told me the funniest thing: he values my advice!<br><br>No one would see that!<br><br>And an easy way to tweet that differently and keep it short enough for twitter? You tell me, I'm at a loss.<br><br>I think the whole filtering replies thing in any way should be ditched and we should all just seem the uncensored streams of those whom we follow!antifreezeWed, 13 May 2009 00:14:39 -0000http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2009/05/twitters-most-moronic-change-removing-reply-settings/#comment-9268339Amen. The problem wasn't the setting, it was the complete lack of a reasonable explanation of it on twitter's end. Removing the setting (that brought me tremendous value and allowed me to discover new and interesting people my friends were having conversations with) totally cripples the most valuable part of twitter for me: that discovery of the interesting.<br><br>Bad bad bad idea twitter. Way to cripple your service.antifreezeTue, 12 May 2009 23:06:15 -0000