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In response to "it is odd - wish there was a way to turn it off - disrupts a timeline" by Epiphany

can the person you are replying to tell what you are replying to? -- nm

Posted by TFox Nov 24 '09, 17:10

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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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