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It'd be great if .@ would still count as a reply (i.e. that tweet would still contain a pointer to the tweet it's replying to) but be visible by everyone. It's
by nollidge 15y ago
It'd be great if .@ would still count as a reply (i.e. that tweet would still contain a pointer to the tweet it's replying to) but be visible by everyone. It's the best of both worlds.
Also I wonder what happens if you hit Reply, but then delete or modify the @username. Is it still counted as a reply to that person's tweet, and therefore only visible to the intersection of your followers?
EDIT: s/union/intersection
- pavel_lishin 15y agoI think that hitting "reply" should still contain a pointer even if you don't include the @username. Doesn't the threaded-reply already imply that you're addressing that person?
- nollidge 15y agoI think that would require a tweak to the UI to make it more obvious that a tweet is a reply. There's already some subtle stuff there (small-font "in reply to" and I think a little curved arrow), but the most obvious part that the content starts with "@".
- joejohnson 15y ago...and therefore only visible to the union of your followers? You meant intersection of your followers.
- martingordon 15y agoI just did some testing on Twitter for Mac: * Having the @username anywhere in the tweet preserves the pointer. * Deleting the username clears out the pointer. * Deleting the username, and retyping it (at the end of the tweet) restores the pointer. The last scenario makes me think that the validation is server side. It seems that Twitter ensures that the tweet still mentions the author of the replied-to tweet or it will clear out the pointer.
- abraham 15y agoReplies are triggered by two factors. An `in_reply_to_status_id` field that is filled in behind the scenes and an @mention of the original author in the text.