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This is not entirely stupid. My biggest pet peeve is people who carry on what should be IM conversations on twitter. Eg @jack are you read yet?. @jill No doing
by ajju 17y ago
This is not entirely stupid. My biggest pet peeve is people who carry on what should be IM conversations on twitter. Eg @jack are you read yet?. @jill No doing hair. @jack hurry up!. @jill shut up! etc. Most such conversational tweets begin with @user.
People will adapt to this. If you want your followers to discover someone you are tweeting, just don't start the tweet with @user. @user is for conversations. That way both conversations and recreational tweet reading can stay alive. It makes sense to me.
- boucher 17y agoThis only affects you if you only follow jack XOR jill. So, if you like them both, you're still going to be annoyed.
- ajju 17y agoSure, but this is still an improvement over the previous situation, for me anyway.
- riklomas 17y agoWhy follow people who use Twiter as IM anyway? One of the great things about Twitter is that people don't get too offended when you unfollow. I think people will adapt to this however, though there may be a different style of replying to people to get around the changes (e.g. "To @jack: Are you ready")
- axod 17y agoWhy would they want to get around it so that everyone sees "To @jack: Are you ready". Why would anyone else care about that message. I really don't understand twitter usage one bit. This update seems sane. Now if they can hide all the noisy useless banal tweets from me....