With apologies to @jmspool, and rant on Twitter replies and presumption
jmspool:
The problem with the @ reply fix is it's all or nothing, when it should be based on conversations. (See the interesting. Avoid the boring.)
noahmittman:
It's not a fix if you don't want to see them, it's Twitter shouting, i.e., you might as well preceed the update with 'hey'
jmspool:
That's my point. Add 'hey' (a great idea, btw) puts the responsibility on the tweeter, when it really should be the reader's.
noahmittman:
True, but "responsibility" is a hard word to justify when it comes to Twitter. Last "hey" post I saw was an LOL and emoticon. || If it's not actually valuable, the user is just spamming the 97% who didn't use it for some conversation boasting || Using profile pages has always been the way to see everyone's conversations, which is compl. foreign now thanks to the API clients || Those who live in replies 80/20 would take over a user's timeline 4x over if they adopted this "fix" || Why not simply reply to someone and then update "having a great convo with @user" -- If it's worth telling me about it, then *tell me.*
