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Re: Twitter’s Most Moronic Change: Removing @ Reply Settings

devinganger — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:44:35 -0000

What about:

Funniest thing from @orian: he values my advice!

vs.

@orian just told me the funniest thing...

Also has the virtue of being shorter, leaving more chars for the content.

Re: Twitter’s Most Moronic Change: Removing @ Reply Settings

antifreeze — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:59:20 -0000

GetSatisfaction link to restore @ replies here: http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/topics/we_wa...

Re: Twitter’s Most Moronic Change: Removing @ Reply Settings

twitteruser — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:20:56 -0000

But that was the default so far - only showing the replies to people you`re following. Nothing has changed in that and I suppose, that the default settings was(is) really dominant among twitter users. Lot of people here sounds like, that showing all the replies should be default - that would kill my twitter experience.

Re: Twitter’s Most Moronic Change: Removing @ Reply Settings

haveboard — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:19:39 -0000

I'm right there with you. I think this is a horrible change. #replygate

Re: Twitter’s Most Moronic Change: Removing @ Reply Settings

antifreeze — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:14:39 -0000

Right, but even then, just because a tweet starts with an @ doesn't mean it's a direct reply to that person!

For instance: @orian just told me the funniest thing: he values my advice!

No one would see that!

And an easy way to tweet that differently and keep it short enough for twitter? You tell me, I'm at a loss.

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!

Re: Twitter’s Most Moronic Change: Removing @ Reply Settings

antifreeze — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:06:15 -0000

Amen. 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.

Bad bad bad idea twitter. Way to cripple your service.