Is Twitter Tracking Replies

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Josh Kenzer

I was catching up on my Twitter timeline, when I saw this:

davidlaplante in Reply

Notice the small link after the from txt. It reads, in reply to RobbSmith. When I clicked on it, I got this:

robbsmith Message

Since Dave’s send was via SMS, I can only guess it was due to the @RobbSmith text at the front. This is a cool new feature add. Did it exist before and I just didn’t notice?

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  • http://www.al3x.net Alex Payne

    Hi Josh. I work on Twitter, so maybe I can help shed some light.

    We’ve been testing the reply feature internally for a good while, and took it live a couple weeks ago. While it’s fairly tolerant of different ways of referring to your friends (@friend, @friend:, friend:), it’s not super smart. The reply feature assumes that you’re referring to you friend’s most recent update. Without complicating the UI, that’s the best we can do for now.

    Thanks for noticing!

  • http://www.radicalbehavior.com Josh Kenzer

    I think it rocks Alex. I can’t wait to see what other features you roll out.

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