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What I don't like in twitter is how non-obvious and inconvenient it is. E.g. the only way to communicate with someone without polluting your timeline (because
by raquo 16y ago
What I don't like in twitter is how non-obvious and inconvenient it is.
E.g. the only way to communicate with someone without polluting your timeline (because who really cares what you @replied to someone) is DMing them, and even that is less convenient than even facebook messages. But no one uses DMs for most conversations so I have to go without following some awesome people just because they @reply massively and I have scroll fatigue already.
Another example – twitter's website has no new @mention notifications, and my SO accidentally discovered this feature when she downloaded Tweetie months after she started tweeting.
No wonder twitter's user retention rate sucks.
- ugh 16y agoBut @replies don’t show up in your timeline unless you are following both sides of the exchange, right?
- mkr-hn 16y agoCorrect. And I've never found those exchanges disruptive. I also limit the number of people I follow. Possibly related. :)
- raquo 16y agoDoes not seem right. See http://twitter.com/#!/shauninman http://twitter.com/#!/shauninman for example I see a lot of Shaun's tweets starting with @someuser, e.g. http://twitter.com/#!/shauninman/status/59266889741905920 http://twitter.com/#!/shauninman/status/59266889741905920 http://twitter.com/#!/shauninman/status/59254473125666816 http://twitter.com/#!/shauninman/status/59254473125666816 http://twitter.com/#!/shauninman/status/59237467353657344 http://twitter.com/#!/shauninman/status/59237467353657344 http://twitter.com/#!/shauninman/status/58999188649807872 http://twitter.com/#!/shauninman/status/58999188649807872 and I don't follow him or any of these guys
- ugh 16y agoWhere are you reading your tweets? @replies don't show up for me when using the official clients or when reading on the website.
- rsoto 16y agoYes, because it's his public timeline. But you will not see @replies from people you are not following in your timeline.
- raquo 16y agoUm, thanks, I'll check that! Still, I think it's unintuitive. There's no way I could figure this out from twitter's UI, if only somehow by accident.
- justinxreese 16y agoThere is a mentions section that lists all of your replies. And you can have any mentions text messaged to your phone.
- cmelbye 16y agoIf you send a mention to someone, no one will see it in the timeline except for the person who you addressed it to, and people who follow both you and that person (If that makes sense.) You're generally not going to annoy your followers by sending out @mentions.