Comments on: Twitter – How to Reply

By: DianaCelella

DianaCelella — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:20:39 +0000

Thanx that is really interesting only been tweeting 6 months and did not know about @ username at being of message.

By: Su

Su — Tue, 10 May 2011 19:59:15 +0000

Update – Another way to see all of someone’s tweets.
Now that twitter has invented Lists, you can also see all of someone’s tweets by adding them to a list.
Lists are independent of the @replies phenomenon.
To add someone to a list of yours, click the list-like button on the right of their ‘Follow’ or ‘Stop Following’ button on their profile.
Why not make a list of people from whom you must read everything? You can even make it private.

By: Su

Su — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:48:03 +0000

Hi Leslie, Happy New Year, and congratulations on the success so far with your colleague @shineeveryday Susan Ortiz’ Paris trip.

Thanks very much for the visual example, really helps explain it.

By: tkpleslie

tkpleslie — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:37:21 +0000

Hi Su!

First, Happy New Year’s to you and thank you for all your help in 2009!

I am sure you have noticed how I put a “.” in front of many of my tweets? It’s so that all can see. As you say, if you start the tweet with JUST the @username only those people following both people will see it.

To help your readers visualitze it a little bit better, maybe this will help:

.@SuButcher or *SuButcher or Hi @SuButcher or a variation -as long as their is a character of some sort in front of the @username gets seen by everyone following you.

@SuButcher with no character in front is seen only by people who are following both you and the person the tweet is adressed to.

I hope this helps a little if ppl. need a visual demo!

I first learned this tip myself from @shelisrael and have been using it for many months now.

Thanks for posting about this-I bet it will help a lot of people.

Leslie

By: Su

Su — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:44:06 +0000

Thanks for your comments Nicky, Alex, Andy.
There is no such thing as a stupid question by the way.
(as my antenatal teacher told me!)

By: Nicky

Nicky — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:41:17 +0000

Thanks Andy and Alex for making me feel like I am not the only one! We are the ones brave (or stupid enough) to admit it!

Happy NY everyone!

By: Alex Parr

Alex Parr — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:08:36 +0000

Well, I never! I didn’t know that about replies! Thanks for the tip.
Have a great New Year and look forward to catching up soon.
Alex.

By: Andy kenyon

Andy kenyon — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:45:42 +0000

Well I have learned something tonight. I new about standrad replies but not about how to make replies visible to all by making sure there was text before the @name.

Needless to say I shall be latering my method or reply in future.

Thanks Su

By: Su

Su — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:50:02 +0000

Hi David, thanks for the tip (i’ll let you off!) Merry Christmas!

By: david hardcastle

david hardcastle — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:19:39 +0000

sorry I’ll take that back, Su already told you!