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Twitter Beat: @Reply Uproar

by Sujoy on May 13, 2009

Twitter has been facing a lot of uproar replies about the recent change in the replies setting. The #FixReplies introduced by Twitter a day back hasn’t gone down quite well with the users and many issues have been reported. Now what were the problems? 

Initially, Twitter’s way of handling replies by users was set to three options:

1. See replies to and from people you follow.

2. See replies from followers as well anyone (i.e. all @ replies)

3. See no @replies at all.

Twitter has now removed these options and the only one available right now is the @replies to and from followers will be visible, and everything else will not be. Here is the post where Twitter announced this change (titled: Small Setting Update). Users have been complaining about the removal of the options. 

Well, if anyone is at all bothered by reading all the @replies, they could surely go to the settings and change their own personal twitter space from being ‘cluttered’ by @replies. But not any more, as it’s now only the way Twitter would want it to be. 

In another post today on the Twitter Blog (We Learned a Lot) , Twitter announced that they have received a lot of negative feedback on the change. But things were to remain unchanged. However, there would be a new functionality introduced called the ‘new improved version of the old @reply’

Here’s what they had to say:

First, we’re making a change such that any updates beginning with @username (that are not explicitly created by clicking on the reply icon) will be seen by everyone following that account. This will bring back some serendipity and discovery and we can do this very soon.

Second, we’ve started designing a new feature which will give folks far more control over what they see from the accounts they follow. This will be a per-user setting and it will take a bit longer to put together but not too long and we’re already working on it. 

Lets all hope we do get something improved.

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Twitter’s First Marriage and all that lands up on Techmeme

by Sujoy on March 28, 2008

TechmemeI really couldn’t care less. I use Techmeme to see the upcoming headlines in the world of Technology. Not to be fed to some dumb tabloid-ish ‘news’. This incident happened on the 21st of March, and it has taken me some time to write about it. It was quite disturbing that even online journalism has become prey to that damned thing called dumbing down. C’mon. What difference does it make if it was the first marriage proposal or the second or the 658th? Apparently there are discussions all across, and by that I mean respectable blogs we read – Wired and Mashable to name a few. Discussions over the authenticity of the marriage or it being just a publicity stunt, or even the authenticity of it being the very FIRST one.
TwitterFirst things first. SHUT UP. Let’s move ahead from the Twitter jungle and the low lives who feel it’s cool to propose the love of your ‘Virtual’ Life on a Social Networking Tool. Is that how Life has shaped up. Are we moving ahead in a direction where proposing via SMS would become a norm. For the non-starters, here’s what actually got delivered. For the 140 character limit, the message had to crisp, sweet and precisely accurate without omitting any necessary emotions.

The message read: “To @emilychang – After fifteen years of blissful happiness I would like to ask for your hand in marriage?”

The reply, within a minute: “@maxkiesler – yes, i do.” Of course you do.!!!!

My question is to Techmeme. Is this what is meant by Tech-headlines? Lemme try create something more explosive and probably my blog could get bloated up in terms of incoming links from Techmeme. Here’s one for starters: Techmeme bashed by Techkeyla. Please oh Please try and avoid these stupid news and let them remain buried in the world of underground blogosphere.

P.S. Do read the comments on the post on Wired.com. It’s a whole set of geeks talking of how they proposed by writing a UNIX main page so on and so forth. I predict that by the time the couple decides to split, Twitter will be acquired by either Microsoft or Google. But given, Google already own Jaiku, chances are that Microsoft might head for Twitter, or may be not.

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