{"id":223,"date":"2009-05-13T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/2009\/05\/twitter-at-replies-become-slash-at-replies.php"},"modified":"2009-05-13T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T16:33:00","slug":"twitter-at-replies-become-slash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/2009\/05\/twitter-at-replies-become-slash.php","title":{"rendered":"Twitter "At" replies become "Slash At" replies"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you are a twitter user you will know the convention of starting a tweet with a @username to reply to another tweet. More recently Twitter has included a form of threading so you know exactly which tweet you were replying to.<\/p>\n

Things were going well until Twitter introduced a now little tweak<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As things stand now Twitter is kind of broken for the way that many people use it. Users, and a lot of users, have made it clear that they are not happy by tweeting about it and tagging those complains with #fixreplies.<\/p>\n

I have a suggestion though that will get us thought the problem now. Instead of using a “@” symbol we use another one. After a small discussion (that we might not have seen all of because of the small Twitter tweak) we decided on a “\/@” symbol. So if you are annoyed by the change please start your tweets with a “\/@” instead of a “@”. Remember NOT to use the reply button.<\/p>\n

Yes it is a step backwards, but hopefully it will be temporary. The new threading will obviously be broken by this. Also many client apps will not work as intended either. Sorry.<\/p>\n

If you like the idea then please tweet about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update: Following Twitter noticing the unhappiness they have tweaked the system again<\/a> so that starting a tweet with an @ will not cause a tweet to be masked from others. So we have the choice of many followers missing our replies, or loose the threading.<\/p>\n

I think the interesting comment in Twitters response was that the original functionality did not scale. This fits in with the way I presumed Twitter was functioning under the bonnet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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