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New thing I'm not getting about Twitter: replies are just, like, standalone? They look dumb as hell without context of what you are replying to. -- nm

Posted by TFox Nov 24 '09, 17:07

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in my case, I only see a reply if I am following both of the people who are conversing. Makes it much less confusing. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 24, 17:11
yes, the lack of threading is annoying. -- nm - loosilu Nov 24, 17:10
it is odd - wish there was a way to turn it off - disrupts a timeline - Epiphany Nov 24, 17:08 11
- can the person you are replying to tell what you are replying to? -- nm - TFox Nov 24, 17:10 10
  - It depends on how they're reading it. It's easy when you're on your Twitter page, but most people read the stream through 3rd-party apps/widgets, and - mara Nov 24, 17:16 6
    - is it generally poor form then to reply to anything but someone's latest tweet? -- nm - TFox Nov 24, 17:20 5
      - No, why would it be? -- nm - mara Nov 24, 17:24 3
        
        Because say you tweet six things, and then I write "yeah, great point". how the shit would you know what i'm referring to? -- nm - TFox Nov 24, 17:26 2
        
        Did you do it as an @reply to a particular tweet? My tweet app (Digsby) tells me. If I'm using an app that doesn't, we'll just assume I don't give a - mara Nov 24, 17:30 1
        
        Ah, ok. That was what I didn't know; if those things linked up somehow. It wasn't apparent to me when I did it. -- nm - TFox Nov 24, 17:30
      - yeah, I think so. It's not really a conversation. more of a cacophony. - loosilu Nov 24, 17:21
  - well usually you put their name it in, like @tfox -- nm - loosilu Nov 24, 17:11 2
    - yeah, but like... then there is no such thing as a reply. there is just a "shit you yell in that dude's direction". - TFox Nov 24, 17:13 1
      - yeah, pretty much. it's very primitive. That's part of the reason for its success. -- nm - loosilu Nov 24, 17:21

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