Maslow Forgot about Beer™ » nanoTweeter http://www.seanstoner.com/blog My irreverent musings on the nature of things . . . . Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:03:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Twitter @ Replies Update: Multiple Addressees http://www.seanstoner.com/blog/2008/12/21/twitter-replies-update-multiple-addressees/ http://www.seanstoner.com/blog/2008/12/21/twitter-replies-update-multiple-addressees/#comments Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:11:22 +0000 Sean http://www.seanstoner.com/blog/2008/12/21/twitter-replies-update-multiple-addressees/ I wanted to post this brief update about a new feature I discovered recently by accident while testing Twitter clients for my Android-based G1 smart phone. “@Replies” on Twitter now picks up tweets that are addressed to multiple people in a chain. These replies also appear to follow the same rules I pointed out in my previous post about Twitter in how @Replies work (alas it still appears most people don’t understand these important points, however). For example, if you send a tweet as follows: “@bob @jane @jim @jesus @mary @joseph have a good holiday,” then each and every person in that chain of addressees will have the tweet appear on their @Replies page! Note, however, if you interrupt the chain in any way, it breaks this behavior, e.g., “@bob @jane and @jim are you coming to my party,” @jim in this case will not get the tweet on his @Replies page. As noted, the rules from my previous post apply. In my first example, even if @mary doesn’t follow the person who sent the tweet, she will still get it in her @Replies tab nevertheless. Clients that use the Twitter API to track @Replies also follow these rules, as I found my accident when testing nanoTweeter for my G1.

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