{"id":373,"date":"2009-06-16T13:49:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T18:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.adam-jackson.net\/?p=373"},"modified":"2009-06-16T13:49:42","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T18:49:42","slug":"hacking-twitter-replies-and-pissing-people-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2009\/06\/16\/hacking-twitter-replies-and-pissing-people-off\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Hacking Twitter Replies (And Pissing People Off)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier, I <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/adamjackson\/status\/2195612872\">tweeted<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Seriously. Everyone that keeps adding a period or brackets when you @ someone so it shows up in my timeline. It&#8217;s dumb and I hate it!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some people weren&#8217;t quite sure what I was talking about so let&#8217;s break down how replies work. Oh I&#8217;m sorry &#8220;mentions&#8221; is what it&#8217;s called now. I&#8217;m not in the habit of calling it &#8220;mentions&#8221; but it makes sense given how the system is setup now. Anyway, before the #FixReplies debacle last month, there was a preference on Twitter Settings that gave you control of what you saw in the timeline.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You would see everyone&#8217;s tweets that you follow. You follow 500 people and every single tweet they make will show up on Twitter.com or your favorite Twitter application.<\/li>\n<li>The second way was to only show tweets from people you follow that don&#8217;t contain replies. Basically, I would only see tweets from people if the tweet DOESN&#8217;T start with a reply (@johnsmith&#8230;) wouldn&#8217;t show up. However, an @JohnSmith somewhere in the tweet didn&#8217;t affect this rule. It was only tweets that started with an @.<\/li>\n<li>The last setting showed replies from people you followed ONLY if you&#8217;re following the person they&#8217;re replying too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The third option was my favorite because I like seeing people I mutually follow interacting with other people I follow. Twitter added this around 6 months ago (guessing) and the preference was actually removed. You can read more about it here on this <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2009\/05\/13\/twitter-fixreplies-features\/\">Mashable Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, people are getting around this feature. My preference still remains that I don&#8217;t see anyone&#8217;s replies IF they&#8217;re replying to someone I don&#8217;t follow. Now people are getting around this setting and it clogs up my stream making Twitter less useful for finding information. Here&#8217;s how you can beat the filter and annoy the hell out of your friends who don&#8217;t want to see all of your replies to other people.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Put a period before your reply. The person you&#8217;re replying to still sees it and so do ALL of your followers. .@JohnSmith<\/li>\n<li>Put brackets around the person&#8217;s name you&#8217;re replying to [@JohnSmith]<\/li>\n<li>Put quotes around your reply &#8220;@JohnSmith&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Basically any punctuation character will work to defeat Twitter&#8217;s system. Honestly, it&#8217;s annoying to those of us that specifically told Twitter that we don&#8217;t want to see your replies and maybe it&#8217;s something Twitter will fix soon. For now, I&#8217;ll just have to un-follow people that do it too often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier, I tweeted: Seriously. 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