Twitter Cuts Replies from Your Stream

[Sheryl Loch]

Twitter’s trying to cut out the ‘noise’.

If I am understanding this right – You will not see when one of your friends @’s someone that you do not follow.

So, if CaitHagar (that I do follow) sends a tweet to @Suezie (That I do not follow) I will not see Cait’s tweet to her.

I can understand people that want less ‘noise’ in their stream but, I like seeing who my friends Tweet to. That is how I find new people that I want to follow. I have found some great links, info, and other twits from seeing the @ replies of people I follow.

So, is this a help or a hurt to your Twitter experience?

Does this mean that I have to follow all the people that my friends follow if I want to keep up on events?

I truly think that this is a Twitter ooops. I’m betting that this will not last. People will have to use Twitter search to find new people they want to follow. We all know that the Twitter search is flawed because many times a good search term is flooded with spam.

Trending topics have always been used by spammers so that is another problem. But, we know that any time you choose to use a free program that the spammers will ruin it in given time.

I guess if you have some great peeps that I should follow - I will never know. Hey, does that mean that #FollowFriday is now rendered useless unless you follow the # in a search?

Sheryl

[Brad West]

Could be a great thing to offer in your settings so an individual has a say in how they want to see their stream. But for those of us who like helping others and someone gets an answer of I don't know it would be great to be able to jump in and help. Twitter may have done this one a little bit the wrong way.
Brad West ~ onomoney

[Sheryl Loch]

Just tried this out - There is a difference between Replies & mentions.

Replies start with @username - Mentions have the @username in the tweet but, not the 1st word.

So if I want all my followers to see a reply (mention) I would have to do something like
Hey dude @BradWest and what ever I was going to say

So from now on you will need to say something before you address your fellow tweeter IF you want everyone to see it.

What a pain in the @ss.

I thought that way back when I signed up for Twitter that you could choose if you wanted to see all @username from the people you follow or the other choice was to see only their tweets that were not @ to others than yourself.

Sheryl

[Cait Hagar]

I guess I never noticed this change in Twitter before you said anything because I never got what people said to other people as it was. If you @ed Sire, I would never see it. I told you that at one point and you thought it was a glitch in Twitter and I was thinking "Um...no?". So I don't know. It is no loss to me, so I wont nag like some of them. Lolz! I can see them when you put something before the @ sign now though...

Cait Hagar

[Brad West]

It's been a month now since the controversy on twitter had been born rejected and reinstated. It seems like it is probably getting to be about time to try something new and see if it is accepted my the masses. I would almost thing that communicating with the masses before investing a ton of time and money into development if they are really trying to cater to the members would actually be beneficial in the long run. A poll would work, but if they had an actual input page may actually give them some new fresh ideas they themselves haven't thought of.

What the hell do I know anyway?
Brad West ~ onomoney