I do hope Twitter clarify this with a blog post, that's the kind of community responsiveness the management would have shown a few years back.
How Twitter broke Twitter
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Re: How Twitter broke Twitter
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not really a command, just convention. If my tweet begins with @Permit, then it's only visible to the intersection of your and my followers, so somebody that follows me but not you would not see it. But if I start it with anything else (people have just adapted . as a convention, but it could be anything) then it's visible to ALL of my followers. Except, as this article explains, if I used the formal Reply butto…
I'm confused. I'm looking around at a few accounts and I see a LOT of them starting with @whatever where I do not follow the other person. Is this a setting somewhere? Did I completely misunderstand? And they show up whether or not I am logged in, whether or not I am following the person using @whatever. Are you sure this tweet-hiding applies when not using the Reply button?
Yeah, what abraham said. Sorry, that could've been clearer.
Re: How Twitter broke Twitter
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not really a command, just convention. If my tweet begins with @Permit, then it's only visible to the intersection of your and my followers, so somebody that follows me but not you would not see it. But if I start it with anything else (people have just adapted . as a convention, but it could be anything) then it's visible to ALL of my followers. Except, as this article explains, if I used the formal Reply butto…
I'm confused. I'm looking around at a few accounts and I see a LOT of them starting with @whatever where I do not follow the other person. Is this a setting somewhere? Did I completely misunderstand? And they show up whether or not I am logged in, whether or not I am following the person using @whatever. Are you sure this tweet-hiding applies when not using the Reply button?
most of twitter's userbase is also confused
Re: How Twitter broke Twitter
#34"Is your face starting to twitch yet?"
I'm a Twitter user, and I can guarantee that my face is not starting to twitch. Not from this news, at least, possibly from the coffee.
I see what he's getting at but I don't honestly think this warrants the sensational tone...
Re: How Twitter broke Twitter
#35The real problem with Twitter and why it has only caught on to a smaller subset of the population than Facebook is that its interface and usage are not intuitive enough. This example is case-in-point.
Re: How Twitter broke Twitter
#36This is disappointing. Twitter is great because it is so simple; they should pick the simplest behavior for any user action and stick with it so users can be fully aware of what every action does.
I agree. The real problem has nothing to do with tweets, it is about non-obvious, non-intuitive, obscure functionality with no clear way to learn.