How Twitter Reply Works

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Posted 04.20.2009 in Technology

There’s been some confusion among Twitter newbies in how @reply works in Twitter. I created a slideshow to explain the general concept. Here’s a test for you. Let’s assume the users here did not modify their default Twitter settings.

benting: @colinwong What is the capital of Malaysia?
colinwong: @benting Kuala Lumpur.

Who will be able to see this conversation thread?

a. Only benting and colinwong.
b. Both benting and colinwong‘s followers.
c. benting‘s followers will see his tweet while colinwong‘s followers will see his tweet.
d. Only the followers who subscribe to both benting and colinwong.

If your answer is not (d), then you better check out this slideshow.

Author:

Colin Wong lives with his wife and three kids in the always sunny, never rainy wonderful land of Seattle.

  • http://www.djchuang.com djchuang

    Plus one small exception: someone may randomly catch this tweet on the everyone page at http://twitter.com/public_timeline

    ;)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Colin-Wong/570610376 Colin Wong

    That too ;)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kamal-Fariz-Mahyuddin/508258787 Kamal Fariz Mahyuddin

    Twitter removed that confusing option today http://blog.twitter.com/2009/05/small-settings-…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Colin-Wong/570610376 Colin Wong

    Nice. That makes a lot of sense, especially for the less tech savvy post-Kutcher post-Oprah crowd.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kamal-Fariz-Mahyuddin/508258787 Kamal Fariz Mahyuddin

    Twitter removed that confusing option today http://blog.twitter.com/2009/05/small-settings-…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Colin-Wong/570610376 Colin Wong

    Nice. That makes a lot of sense, especially for the less tech savvy post-Kutcher post-Oprah crowd.

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