Comments on: How @Replies Work on Twitter (and Why It’s Stupid)

By: Carol Fishman Cohen

Carol Fishman Cohen — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:56:55 +0000

“But here’s the kicker: Despite my using @jbernoff in that above tweet, it won’t appear in Josh’s @replies column for the single reason I did not begin the tweet with his username. ” Thank you Ari! I have always wondered about this and now I know the answer. Also great meeting you at Salty Legs –Carol

By: Andrea Hill

Andrea Hill — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:06:05 +0000

This is the reason I miss the ‘track’ feature in twitter! I used to track my username so I’d get the messages in which I was referenced. Now I suppose you could subscribe to an RSS feed of a search of your screen name, but that’s much less convenient

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By: Danny Brown

Danny Brown — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:33:39 +0000

I use Tweet Grid – http://tweetgrid.com – a lot because it’s a nice and easy browser-based system, and that picks up everything, regardless of placement in the message. It’s how I keep track of conversations as well as hashtag messages.

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By: cottageantiques

cottageantiques — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:52:32 +0000

from AriWriter, how @ Replies Work on Twitter and Why It’s Stupid [link to post] I’m learning nu things about twitter every day

– http://twitter.com/cottageantiques/statuses/1075923115

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By: Barb Chamberlain

Barb Chamberlain — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:53:37 +0000

Ari,

I read this once already and thought about it, then looked at it again because you sent it to someone with an @ msg that I saw.

Kami’s advice about cutting out the @ replies to other people you’re not also following from your stream does cut down on what you see, if that’s your goal.

However, I’ve changed my settings to see the @ msgs to others in order to spot interesting new people to follow. In this sense the @ msg serves like a mini-reference/referral source.

I’ve also started using the @ msg to introduce myself to people when I start following them, with something about an interest in common or how I found them (e.g. “Found you thx to @ariherzog”). This gets at least some of the relationships rolling right away and giving us both more value. There’s also some utility to it for sorting people into groups in TweetDeck, if I ever get around to finishing THAT project–I’ll be able to read my own msgs to remember something about the person without looking at each profile.

I have an unscientific sense that thanks to the introduction, those people who have far more followers than people they follow are more likely to give me a reciprocal follow because I bothered to introduce myself. I wish people who follow me would do the same–I look at their profiles and with some, I wonder what it was in my tweets that interests them.

–barb

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By: Gib

Gib — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:02:00 +0000

Ari, Someone explained the @replies to me in the twitterstream. I've only had two tweets in recent months that show up in searches but not in my @replies. What I've found useful about the format (which doesn't counter your critique) is that TwitterTools (by an option) and the Twitter FaceBook application (automatically) seem to ignore all @replies that start with the @ sign. Gib´s last blog post..See Resume, See Door, See Applicant Run

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:03:23 +0000

I had no idea about the differences in placement of the @ symbol. Very good to know…thanks for sharing Ari (and commenters)