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Yasssss. This is the future, no replies. Don't @ me. EDIT: After reading more about this, it looks like people can still reply? Would be nice if they just adde

• derefr 7y ago
  Would be semi-impossible given that half the comments shown on a Twitter “thread” aren’t really comment-objects, but rather just their own tweets sitting on someone else’s timeline that have @ed you in them and twitter figured out which thread to attach them to by heuristic. Sure, in theory, you could turn off the heuristic—but you’d still see them just fine if you did a global search for your @handle. Or are you suggesting disallowing what is essentially “allowing people to refer to you on their own blogs”?