by Michelle Lentz
Twitter.com has updated the Replies tab to act more like the Replies in your third-party Twitter application. Oh, you’re using Twitter.com? Then you’ll like this.
The first thing to notice is that the tab no longer reads Replies, and instead is @UserName. Replies are now officially referred to as Mentions.
It now functions differently as well. Previously, only true replies would display in the tab, such as:
@writetechnology We liked your last blog post!
Now, all mentions of your user name (thus the official change to “Mentions”) will display in the tab, such as:
I enjoyed meeting @writetechnology at @tk09.
The above tweet would show up in @ tab for both me and the TK09 account. Previously, that would have displayed in Twhirl, and I assume Tweetdeck, but not actually in the Replies tab on Twitter. This is a pretty cool change, allowing you to better track whenever your user name is mentioned.
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