Twitter Finally Gets @replies
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?
Heh, I had no idea the replies functionality worked that way before!
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.
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!
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.”