Comments on: Twitter’s Most Moronic Change: Removing @ Reply Settings

By: ravm

ravm — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:03:17 +0000

Nice post. Thanks for sharing, Victoria. What a great way to use this new feature!

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Wed, 13 May 2009 23:03:53 +0000

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By: Victoria

Victoria — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:18:55 +0000

I just read this article about Twitter's change and thought you might be interested in it. http://lauraminer.com/post/107337770/now-we-can...

By: If Twitter and #fixreplies is about confusion, it’s a design error. « synset & skrevet & laget

Wed, 13 May 2009 21:00:58 +0000

[...] I first discovered the changes at Pleasure & Plain, who explains the changes very well. [...]

By: Orian Marx

Orian Marx — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:38:08 +0000

As it turns out, it *was* an engineering problem concealed as a UX problem. That's pretty lame but not surprising. @Spidermint and I were right on the mark:

http://blog.twitter.com/2009/05/whoa-feedback.html
http://blog.twitter.com/2009/05/we-learned-lot....

By: ebuie

ebuie — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:21:27 +0000

This change was the first time I realized that this had an option, but it is something I had been wishing for for some time. Now that I know I used to have the option, I want it back.

Dear Twitter, if an option is confusing, the solution is to redesign the interaction or explain the option better. Yanking it is not the answer.

By: WaltRibeiro

WaltRibeiro — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:02:05 +0000

This is the dumbest thing. Ever. All your friends were strangers at one point – and to exclude strangers from meeting and connecting in the first place (just because they don't follow each other) it defeats everything that makes Twitter (and relationships) work.

By: lwcavallucci

lwcavallucci — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:44:15 +0000

Being able to see who my friends are talking to is the key to how I have developed such an incredible base of people who all add a great deal of worth to both my Twitter stream and to my life. This is an important feature. Please bring it back.