There was a crowing kerfluffle on Twitter today over speculation that the party had shift the way @ replies work . In a nutshell , some users were reporting that they could no longer publicly reply to conversation .
When you respond to someone on Twitter , the message starts off with an @username prefix . But only multitude who postdate that @username will see your reply . To get around this , users have long put a period in front of the @ symbolization , which makes the tweet visible to everyone as in .@username . That essentially lets users respond to someone in public .
( An away : Oh my god . This is the mute thing I ’ve ever write about . )
But today people were reporting that no longer work . And it was all over Twitter . Most of this seemed to start from one web log berth on the Incidental Economist , which claimed that if you used that .@username trick after remove response , only people who followed the both user would see the reply . It noted that type the “ .@username ” prefix into a new tweet manually would allow all your follower to see the twirp reply , but that doing so broke the threaded conversation view .
This wasgreeted with gleein some R-2 , befuddlement in other , and of line , a lot of WWIC anger .
In my experience that was not the case . Notethis back and forthin which @ClaraJeffery , who I do comply , sends a .@ response to @AlyssaRosenberg , who I do not . The tweet demonstrate up in my timeline , and also as conversation opinion .
I ’m still wait to hear back from Twitter as to what the official word is , but in the meantime , are you seeing.@ replies ?
Update :
Philip Bump reportsthat this may only be going on with the nomadic apps , as per this piece in The Atlantic Wire .
Rod Begbie saysit ’s been befall for more than a twelvemonth . ( Here ’s his discussion about it from January 2011 . )
Update 2 :
A Twitter spokesperson tell Gizmodo it ’s a bug , and they ’re going to pay off it
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