I'm confused. We'll no longer see @replies from people we don't follow? If so, that's awful.
Good thing Twitter bought Summize, as it's quickly becoming the most useful part of Twitter. Search "to:username" gives you this exact functionality.
Good thing Twitter bought Summize, as it's quickly becoming the most useful part of Twitter. Search "to:username" gives you this exact functionality.
Your username: you
You are following: friend
You are not following: stranger.
friend tweets: @stranger I wish the would be like Clojure or better work on an Iterator instead of lists
The way it worked before, you would have the option to see both of these messages, one of these, or none of these. Now you get to see none of them. @you tweets are unaffected.
I'm finding it hard to find a clear description of this anywhere, so I might be incorrect.
Personally, I liked seeing conversation fragments. If the reply looked interesting I could easily enough click on the other person's username to load their tweets and get the question/conversation.
The ironic thing about Twitter forcing this is that those of us who wanted it this way are going to be screwed, too. People are already prefixing @replies to get around the issue. The preference has moved from the receiver to the sender. If someone wants you to see a conversational reply they'll just do "PR @username" or whatever.
The result is that has Twitter actually removed all choice for people on both sides of the issue. Whoops!