Can’t Join the Conversation

Twitter recently took away the option to see replies that people we don’t follow made in conversations.

This truly has broken the system that was making Twitter a joy for many of us. We often found new connections and new people to follow because we would find them engaged in conversation. In a sense, eavesdropping grew the community.

Twitter has not even given us the option to open this channel. They’ve simply taken it away altogether. Now we can only see the replies of others to people that we follow — but no one else.

FIXIT Twitter

I have seen quite a bit of action on this particular topic (obviously by people that I follow).

@ikepigott spearheaded a campaign tonight that has been filtering quite often in the “retweet” stream:

@twitter – The Replies were not broken. You’ve made conversational discovery impossible. #FIXIT (and retweet)

If you agree that this is a function that is debilitating to your Twitter useage, get on your stream and let them have it! #FIXIT

And you can quote me on that. I’m @richpalmer.