Comments on: Twitter Hides Replies From Your Friends

By: Those Lost Twitter Replies | Shannon Whitley

Those Lost Twitter Replies | Shannon Whitley — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:32:05 +0000

[...] If you’re a newer Twitter user (under a year), you may not even realize that Twitter performs some filtering on what you submit to the service. In May of 2009, Twitter decided that you didn’t need to [...]

By: ceza fan

ceza fan — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:27:39 +0000

RT @karelvredenburg Great suggestion to use “To @name” if you’d like others to see your replies & bypass Twitter decision http://is.gd/zsyF
good post!

By: Envision Jeremy

Envision Jeremy — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:12:36 +0000

This should be an option, not a default setting. How else can i find new people to follow?

By: Michael Ramm

Michael Ramm — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:03:56 +0000

THANK YOU TWITTER for doing something about endless drather of noise! There are PLENTY of ways for people to find new followers. They don’t have to rely on one-sided conversations with people they already know.

I take my twitter presence pretty seriously. I try to engage in conversations with my (human) followers to make the experience enjoyable. To say that folks did not know that silencing the folks that you don’t follow is a COP OUT! Whenever I join a new website, the first thing that I do is go through my Account Settings, and right there under Notices was a pulldown that let you specify how your Replies were handled (there was even an explanation, if I recall).

People seem to forget that twitter is NOT a democracy. People do not paying to use the service. Biz, Evan and the twitter team get to decide what happen to the service that THEY CREATED. I read one of my followers and he said “Put replies back to the way they were! You’re going to lose a lot of people this way – epic fail” REALLY! You are going to leave twitter because you have a little more work to find new people. Come on, that is the most ridiculous thing that I have ever heard.

I applaud twitter for turning OFF the firehose to make this a better service, and more importantly, an enjoyable experience.

By: Alastair McDermott

Alastair McDermott — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:12:40 +0000

As Jeff mention (quoted above – update) I don’t think people realised this was a “feature”, so there was no demand for it – the majority of people just assumed they saw all public Tweets from people they follow.

By: objects

objects — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:08:40 +0000

If people do not want to see comments from people they do not follow then it would seem a better approach for the twitter clients to implement it as an option. Removing the tweets from the timeline is unnecessary as I see it.

Was there any indication of a demand for this feature previously, I dunno.