The person was talking about @ mentions, not DMs. @ mentions have certain properties - it's a semi-open form of communication. Other friends who follow you b

The person was talking about @ mentions, not DMs. @ mentions have certain properties - it's a semi-open form of communication. Other friends who follow you both can see your communications. That can be handy If you and others prefer to communicate (for certain purposes) via twitter, and there's another person, X, that you'd like to also include in the communication... sure you can send them a message by some other means, but it'd be more convenient to be able to just include them as well. >The argument can be turned around - you could just follow people whose updates you don't care about on Twitter so they can message you As I said, the discussion was not about DMs, but anyway the original point was about how software might be changed to make things more convenient... you seem to be treating less-convenient compromises as the only option that should be considered.