Sharpe's Opinion
Wednesday, 13th May, 2009
Jason Kottke on Twitter’s changes to how @replies work:
When I follow someone, I want to see everything they post. Those @replies to my friends’ friends are part of their narrative, part of what I want to hear from them. Arbitrarily cutting out some tweets sucks.
I appreciate that most people had this setting turned off by default, but I don’t see why those of us who like seeing everything a person says can’t turn them back on. I found that having ‘show all @replies’ turned on meant I saw more interesting conversations and found more interesting people to follow. Now Twitter aren’t even letting me turn it back on as an option. That sucks.
I couldn’t agree more. It is a real shame. I use to pick up some techy stuff reading the tweets of others to others (and rubbish about LibDems but we’ll ignore that
). The change takes away the relevance of DMs too.
I know it is to help Twitter’s servers given the increased number of twitters but I hope those geeky twits get twitting and listen to their tweets.
Measured
May 14, 2009 at 4:14 pm