Twitter Adds Replies Tab

Posted on May 30, 2007

Twitter continues to add new features. Overnight they added a replies tab to the popular microblogging and communication tool. The new replies tab pulls up all the replies to your tweets from other Twitterers. Some Twitterers are now noticing a few old replies they may have missed at the time of tweeting.

As Pixelspread notes the addition of the Replies Tab follows Twitter's recent addition of hyperlinks to Twitter names when the @ syntax is used. Biz Stone from Twitter, Inc. blogs about Twitter's decision to support the @ sybol in this post.

At some point, Twitter-ers came up with their own method of directing updates to one another using an @ symbol. We started supporting this behavior by doing things like creating the in reply to link, confining the reply messages to friends in the loop, and linking the @username to a profile. Another layer of support to this behavior is a feature we launched tonight which collects updates directed at you-just in case you missed 'em.

Twitter also added a small ad for their new Facebook app that lets you use Twitter from inside Facebook.com.