Twitter word change sees the end to replies

It's more about mentions

Twitter word change sees the end to replies

31 March 2009 7:45 GMT / By Stuart Miles

The Twitterverse is aghast this morning following the news that you can no longer reply to your followers.

In a world that moves as fast as playground banter, the Twitter creators believe that we "mention" rather than "reply" to our followers, hence the name change has been rolled out across the globe to all Twitter users as of now.

Claiming the update was for the good of the service, it seems the clever Twitter types (that's you dear reader) have started getting more inventive with how they Twitter - the horror.

"Now people include @username mentions in the middle of tweets as a way to simply reference another account", says Stone, clearly suggesting that they didn't expect such a bold move from the Twitterati when it came to using the service.

So Replies have been ditched, mentions have been created and "Today's update better reflects how folks are using Twitter now".

Time for a nap to take in the news.

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Comments

  • Can't blame them for finding new ways to push the envelope of thinking outside the box moving forwards. After all, new synergies like this are vitally important in maintaining the flow of meaningless jargon. Posted by GK, UK
  • I don't think this changes the way you use Twitter that much, you still put @username if you want to respond to someone Posted by misund007, UK
  • Come on. They are finally doing what Tweetdeck eg has been doing for ages: they are making sure you are not missing any mention of your username. In other words: they integrated the username-search funtion. DSon't understand why they are masking it as a change of name "O, it's no longer Replies, but Mentions". What the... Posted by lamazone, belgium
  • What day is it tomorrow? Posted by couzindan, United Kingdom
  • Excellent! About time. This is a far more effective way to monitor your Twitter presence: something we have all been doing for ages anyway!

    I wonder how this change will manifest in the API?
    Posted by Miles Tinsley, UK

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