For the power users out there, this isn’t even remotely interesting, since you all use TweetDeck, Twhirl, or any other kick-ass desktop client that already understand these things. But web interface users who wanted to catch up on mentions have been forced to search, since the @replies link in the sidebar just listed tweets where you were @username’d at the beginning of a tweet.
In your Twitter sidebar you’ll now see your own @username tab. When you click that tab, you’ll see a list of all tweets referencing your account with the @username convention anywhere in the tweet—instead of only at the beginning which is how it used to work.
About time. Do follow @blogherald on Twitter, and why not follow me (@tdhedengren) as well?
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Heh, I had no idea the replies functionality worked that way before!
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Well I have to admit I had no idea what the @replies was used for. No, I am not a “power” user but I am however using the Firefox power Twitter plug-in & it was due to their nifty little extras that I finally learned what the @replies was all about. With that said I am glad to see Twitter finally caught on that users really still have no clue how to use all of it’s functions.
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That’s very good, but even better would be that you can see how many new messages are in there* (since your last login), without having to click to go in.
*there=@username, formerly @Replies!
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Clarification: Twitter already had @replies. The recent changes just make them more useful, making the replies tab display any mention of @you, rather than just tweets that have @you at the beginning. Partly why Twitter is referring to them as “Mentions” now instead of “Replies.”