Lies, damned lies, and statistics. That 97% only indicates that most people don't change the defaults; it says nothing about what Twitter users want. In this

Lies, damned lies, and statistics. That 97% only indicates that most people don't change the defaults; it says nothing about what Twitter users want. In this case it's particularly misleading, since we're talking about an option to turn off silent data loss. What would make someone track down a setting related to a problem they don't know they have? A more honest representation would be: "A small number of our users were aware that we filter @replies by default, some were happy about it and a few (3% of total users) changed their settings to remove the filtering."