Based on usage patterns and feedback, we’ve learned most people want to see when someone they follow replies to another person they follow—it’s a good way to stay in the loop. However, receiving one-sided fragments via replies sent to folks you don’t follow in your timeline is undesirable. Today’s update removes this undesirable and confusing option.
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Biz, via the Twitter blog.
Basically, this is saying if I follow @a and not @b, I’ll never see @a’s tweet saying: “@b you’re brilliant, everyone should follow you!”
This feels very wrong from a discovery perspective. More than half of the people I currently follow on twitter I found organically through @-replies from someone I was already following. Now where am I going to find new people?
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What I find so interesting about all of this, is that this is the kind of decision that rookie founders make when they...
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follow @a and not @b, I’ll never see @a’s tweet saying: “@b you’re brilliant, everyone should follow you!” This feels...
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