But the bigger thinking behind the new feature stretches back earlier than this year. Twitter has long as in years now been working on creating better ways to channel its open-ended social platform to keep it from getting exploited and abused. For a recent example of that argument pertaining specifically to cancel culture conversations, see here. Admittedly, it can be one of the more empowering feelings you can have on this big internet of ours, to be able to reply to someone on Twitter when you have an opinion on something, or just a question.
Never mind that the reply may never come, or come from an army of trolls. People, some of whom might be vulnerable or going through difficult situations, can be singled out for negative responses by other users, leading some of them to leave Twitter altogether, sometimes in very high-profile incidents. There are a couple of counter arguments, though. One is that people can still see and retweet what someone says, one way of responding. A retweet with comment can still be pretty powerful: Sometimes these tweets can go viral and be seen even more than the original tweets themselves.
Xie noted that people will be able to see when replies have been limited, and that Twitter is working on ways of making that more obvious. Not everyone checks the Mentions tab regularly, though, so these messages are easy to miss.
The same goes for Twitter replies that might be directed toward you. If another user replies to one of your tweets, their Reply message only appears on your home page tweet timeline if you follow that sender. If not, it only appears on your Notifications page.
The Reply tweet is public and other Twitter users can see it if they visit the profile page of the sender and view their tweets after it was sent. As for your followers, your Reply message only shows up in their tweet timelines if they follow the person to whom you sent the reply.
If they follow you but don't follow the person you replied to, they won't see your reply tweet. That's not understood by many people because it's not the way Twitter ordinarily works. Your followers usually see all your tweets. So, when you send a public tweet by clicking the Twitter reply button, your followers won't see it unless they also follow the person whose tweet you replied to.
It's one reason why some people get frustrated with the nuances of Twitter. If you want all your followers to see a Twitter reply of yours, there's a little trick you can use. Put a period in front of the symbol at the beginning of your reply. So, if you send a reply to a Twitter user named davidbarthelmer, for example, start your reply with.
Your followers will see that reply in their timelines. You can still use the Twitter reply button, just be sure to place a period in front of the username. Another way to publicly share a reply is to not reply but Quote Tweet someone else's Tweet.
That means retweeting a tweet but including your comment in it. It's a good idea to be judicious in your use of the Twitter Reply button.
When you have a direct conversation with someone, be sure your tweets are interesting before you send a barrage of Twitter replies. While your Twitter Reply message may be meant for the person you're responding to, it appears in the timeline of your mutual followers.
So, if you send three or four replies in a short period of time, and some of them are trivial, that might be annoying for other people who may not be interested in your banter or small talk. The best place for private Twitter banter is the Twitter DM or direct message channel. Messages sent using the Twitter direct message button are private, viewable only by the recipient. Alternatively, if you want more people to see your replies, send a regular tweet and include the username of the person you're aiming your message at, but don't put it at the beginning of the tweet.
Twitter replies always start with the username of the person you're responding to, so this isn't an official Twitter reply. But if you want to get the attention of a user and respond to something they said, it accomplishes that while also being viewable by your followers. There's no need to stick a period in front of the username to make this kind of tweet viewable by your followers because it's not technically a Twitter reply.
Putting a person's username in a tweet is called a mention on Twitter because it mentions a specific username within the text of the tweet. You can protect your tweets to prevent your replies from being seen, but this step protects all of your updates not just the replies.
The "Protect my Tweets" option is on the Account page of the Settings screen, and once this feature is enabled, only followers who are specifically approved will be able to see any of your updates including any replies you send. The same rules for the timeline and profile then apply to any users you have confirmed as approved followers.
An information technology journalist since , David Nield writes about the Web, technology, hardware and software. By David Nield. What are Replies? Replies in the Timeline The timeline is what users see when they log in to Twitter -- it shows updates from accounts being followed, including retweets by those accounts from elsewhere.
Replies on your Profile Your Twitter profile is the page showing your name, bio and recent tweets with the URL "twitter.
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