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http://www.quora.com/Twitter-1/Why-do-some-tweets-have-a-period-in-front http://www.quora.com/Twitter-1/Why-do-some-tweets-have-a-per... i knew twitter was bro
by spot 14y ago
http://www.quora.com/Twitter-1/Why-do-some-tweets-have-a-period-in-front http://www.quora.com/Twitter-1/Why-do-some-tweets-have-a-per...
i knew twitter was broken but this takes the cake.
i have been using twitter for years and had no idea.
- TillE 14y agoHey, Quora got slightly less obnoxious about blocking their content. Finally. Just a week or two ago, I followed a link to Quora and they were still doing the scummy old Experts Exchange trick of blurring out most of the answers.
- jlgreco 14y agoI tried them two days ago and they were doing the same. Seems like a very recent change.
- flexxaeon 14y agohaven't used quora enough to discern but it seems to be selective. sometime i get the roadblock, other times not
- nostrademons 14y agoI just tried them now and got the blurred answers. Maybe you have a Quora account you're signed into?
- ampersandy 14y agoReyner's response is the correct answer.
- danso 14y agoBefore the rise of Twitter's own official client, it really was an elegant way to handle the problem of having a minimal interface (i.e. no reply button). But yes, it was basically something you wouldn't "get" unless someone told you, or you used twitter enough to eventually notice that someone's direct-tweet did not make it into your overall timeline. And the many screwups with direct-messages is pretty well known... If that riles you up, look at how SMS legacy commands still cause issues: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/one-thing-you-definitely-cant-tweet http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/one-thing-you-definitely-c...
- code_duck 14y agoAha, until I read about the SMS issue, I'd forgetten how incompetent Twitter was in the past. The whole 'scaling' debacle, etc.
- skrebbel 14y agoI'm not certain that's fair. They grew by an order of magnitude every half year or so. That's very difficult to keep up with, especially when you have no idea how to turn all those signups into money.
- code_duck 14y agoI followed the entire thing and was trying to use the site, too... my impression is that there was an equal mixture of legitimate challenge met well, and incompetence/bad decisions.
- lucisferre 14y agoThis is the exact reason Twitter needs to change or accept it will never have true long-term mass market appeal. It's UX is targeted at geeks and not for the average user. This was great for getting off the ground, but the fact that these things still exist is pretty sad. I'm not at all surprised their new CEO didn't get this. In fact it underlies the need for the to pivot even more.
- pbreit 14y agoI'm still confused. If I'm on someone's profile, the tweet box already includes @user. So if I go ahead and tweet in that box, it will not show up in my follower's feeds? It was not a "reply". I would agree that's totally broken but live feeds aren't even usable past 10 or 20 followees anyway so maybe it doesn't matter that much?