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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.