#Twitter Tips about getting the most bang out of your @replies. Great post, @swhitley! [link to post]

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What I do is place the @so-and-so deeper into the Tweet, conversationally. Like so:

Hey, @NewEnglandHD, love the promo video you did for @12MeterCharters! Makes me miss sailing in Newport!

Love the .@so-and-so approach. I haven’t seen that in my own feed yet, but I’m sending people to this post, so maybe it’ll catch on!

Michelle Quillin

Those Lost Twitter Replies | Shannon Whitley [link to post]

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I asked, out of sheer curiousty, how the people who follow me found me to follow and 17% said it was because they saw someone @ me. (must have been loyal followers from pre-May09)

@IleenieWeenie – I feel that way whenever I use the “.@” too, and I tend not to use it too often. It’s like a little kid saying, “Look at me.” On the other hand, people do miss out on good conversation if it’s never used.

The nail has been firmly hit – the option given for user selection, as it once was (was that when Mentions and Replies were still listed separately too?)

I still think this way as default is best, but to be fair the option SHOULD be there (and other filtering options, as Chris rightly pointed out).

Thanks for pasting that convo Mike – point made quite nicely and I wholeheartedly agree with your conclusion.

@conniereece said,

Totally agree w/ @swhitley on this: “Those Lost Twitter Replies” – http://is.gd/cq9Up [Built my list of ppl to follow this way.]

@conniereece It used to be that way for a short time. A “radio box” chooser; All replies, replies only to mutual friends, no replies”. #bestway

@swhitley @mikeneumann You’re right, that would have been the best decision for all. Let people choose.

@swhitley @mikeneumann That’s right. It’s been so long, I forgot. Thanks for the RT!

I’m a firm believer that Twitter made the changes, and the final “decision” based purely on their database performance woes at the time, and never revisited the option. They’re too busy working out their closed Ad engine. (* cough, sarc *)

As for me, they chose the behavior that I was using. I was frankly tired of some long-winded bantering between some users who clearly needed to get a (conference) room.

Thanks again.

There are a wide variety of basic filtering features missing from Twitter.

If I was working at Twitter I would probably be annoyed that there aren’t better tools for getting all the good stuff out of the stream. You know, like my witty banter, err… I mean your witty banter