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If you use Twitter, chances are good that you’ve noticed a small change on your home page lately. Right under the “Home” tab, it used to say “@replies.” The only issue with that was that it would show tweets that began the message with your name, and left out others were you may have been referred. The new change fixes all that.
“The @Replies feature was introduced because we noticed lots of folks putting the @ symbol in front of Twitter usernames as a way of addressing one another,” wrote Biz Stone, a co-founder of Twitter on their official blog. “However, folks started getting more inventive as they often do. Now people include @username mentions in the middle of tweets as a way to simply reference another account. For example: I'm flying @jetblue to Boston. Also, folks reference multiple accounts in a single tweet like this: I'm flying @jetblue to Boston with @ev @crystal and @goldman.”
For most users, this change probably won’t be a game changer. But, for folks that use this as a communication tool it is a genuinely nice change that can help them see just who’s saying what about them!
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