Comments on: How to get around the twitter @reply change http://www.yourcomputerminute.com/2009/05/12/how-to-get-around-the-twitter-reply-change/ Simple tips for you and your users Wed, 13 May 2009 13:23:13 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Heinz http://www.yourcomputerminute.com/2009/05/12/how-to-get-around-the-twitter-reply-change/comment-page-1/#comment-11307 Heinz Wed, 13 May 2009 13:23:13 +0000 http://www.yourcomputerminute.com/?p=1419#comment-11307 Your workaround will make my @replies show up in all my follower's timelines, even if they prefer not to see it (using the default setting before the change). I'm not sure you'd want to do that. Also, this workaround it doesn't fix the biggest problem most people have with this change. It will still not allow me to see all @replies, unless everybody starts using your trick to circumvent the current restriction. As I see it, the only solution here is for Twitter to reverse its decision to take away user choice and force this setting upon us all. Your workaround will make my @replies show up in all my follower’s timelines, even if they prefer not to see it (using the default setting before the change). I’m not sure you’d want to do that.

Also, this workaround it doesn’t fix the biggest problem most people have with this change. It will still not allow me to see all @replies, unless everybody starts using your trick to circumvent the current restriction.

As I see it, the only solution here is for Twitter to reverse its decision to take away user choice and force this setting upon us all.

]]> By: Karina Wright http://www.yourcomputerminute.com/2009/05/12/how-to-get-around-the-twitter-reply-change/comment-page-1/#comment-11306 Karina Wright Wed, 13 May 2009 10:53:35 +0000 http://www.yourcomputerminute.com/?p=1419#comment-11306 But then that just screws it up for the people who don't want all the @replies. They are forced to see it because it will appear in your public stream. What was the big fat hairy deal in them just leaving our setting alone and, god forbid, explaining it better. If this doesn't get rescinded, I'm going to leave twitter. I don't want to deal with people who feel that they have the right to pick how I choose my friends. But then that just screws it up for the people who don’t want all the @replies. They are forced to see it because it will appear in your public stream. What was the big fat hairy deal in them just leaving our setting alone and, god forbid, explaining it better.

If this doesn’t get rescinded, I’m going to leave twitter. I don’t want to deal with people who feel that they have the right to pick how I choose my friends.

]]> By: Peter Kay http://www.yourcomputerminute.com/2009/05/12/how-to-get-around-the-twitter-reply-change/comment-page-1/#comment-11305 Peter Kay Wed, 13 May 2009 09:22:49 +0000 http://www.yourcomputerminute.com/?p=1419#comment-11305 I actually like the change but totally agree that it should be a setting kinda thing that you should be able to change. I actually like the change but totally agree that it should be a setting kinda thing that you should be able to change.

]]> By: Kennedy808 http://www.yourcomputerminute.com/2009/05/12/how-to-get-around-the-twitter-reply-change/comment-page-1/#comment-11304 Kennedy808 Wed, 13 May 2009 09:15:37 +0000 http://www.yourcomputerminute.com/?p=1419#comment-11304 Hey Peter, I didn't even realize that Twitter had made a change to @replies recently because I always had my account set to only show @replies to people that I also follow. I did that because I read every tweet from people I follow, and it was too much to keep up with if I also had to see their every reply to some stranger when I didn't even see the other half of the conversation. I don't understand why Twitter made this the default and only setting (maybe to reduce total tweet volume?), but still I don't totally agree with your workaround. At least according to Twitter, most users had their accounts set to not show non-follower @replies, and so the habit of retweeting and then replying in the same tweet is going to add unwanted clutter to already full timelines. I hope the vocal supposed-minority makes their voice heard and Twitter reinstates the choice of which replies you'd like to see, but when they do, I think people should accept that choice by their followers and not force content on them that they specifically said they don't want to see. Hey Peter, I didn’t even realize that Twitter had made a change to @replies recently because I always had my account set to only show @replies to people that I also follow. I did that because I read every tweet from people I follow, and it was too much to keep up with if I also had to see their every reply to some stranger when I didn’t even see the other half of the conversation.

I don’t understand why Twitter made this the default and only setting (maybe to reduce total tweet volume?), but still I don’t totally agree with your workaround. At least according to Twitter, most users had their accounts set to not show non-follower @replies, and so the habit of retweeting and then replying in the same tweet is going to add unwanted clutter to already full timelines.

I hope the vocal supposed-minority makes their voice heard and Twitter reinstates the choice of which replies you’d like to see, but when they do, I think people should accept that choice by their followers and not force content on them that they specifically said they don’t want to see.

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