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This worked like that years ago. Horrible decision to undo that "fix".

• cstejerean 10y ago
  That fix was intended to hide replies before replies were a first class citizen. At that time there was no easy way to distinguish between a reply and a tweet that simply started with a @. Now that replies are first class citizens they can revisit this "fix". And plenty of people didn't like this fix when it was first introduced, that's why .@ started as a convention after it.
  • unlinker 10y ago
    That fix was not a quick hack, it was a full-fledged feature that has been there since... 2009?
    • rwc 10y ago
      Everything old is new again... http://techcrunch.com/2009/05/12/twitter-decides-were-not-smart-enough-for-replies-changes-them-again/ http://techcrunch.com/2009/05/12/twitter-decides-were-not-sm...