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I was talking more about announcements. I do the @reply thing, but it's a little sucky, since that @reply shows up in everyone's feed.

• jsb 17y ago
  So long as you start the tweet with @[twitteruser], your @reply will only appear in someone's feed if they follow you and also the person you are sending the at-reply to. Or if they are the person you're sending the message to, of course.
  • vaksel 17y ago
    that's the point, if my message is only to that one person, why would my followers want to read about it?
    • jsb 17y ago
      To clarify, your @reply won't necessarily appear in everyone's feed. It will only appear if: 1) They are the user you are sending the @reply to, OR 2) They follow you AND the person you send the @reply to. So for example, if I follow @balsamiq and @fogbugz and @balsamiq sends an @reply to @fogbugz, that message will appear in my feed. But if @balsamiq sends an @reply to a user I do not follow, I will not see it in my feed.
      • davidu 17y ago
        I'm pretty sure it doesn't work that way. I think everyone see's your @reply -- perhaps you mean DMs?
        • icey 17y ago
          jsb is correct; they made this change a few months back.
          • shaddi 17y ago
            Extra tidbit: this is the reason for those ". @foo ..." tweets you may be seeing. If any character precedes the @, then the tweet will appear in all your follower's feeds; otherwise, it behave as jsb described.