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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
reply . - noun Plural form of
reply .
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Examples
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It would also be fantastic to differentiate between @replies and non-replies in the tweets per day.
ManageTwitter Helps You Sort Your Followers | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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In fact, I talk to even advanced Twitter users on a regular basis whom I end up explaining what the @replies setting does and who see what replies.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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Why Twitter's Engineers Hate the @replies feature - Biz Stone, Twitter's, recently wrote in a blog post entitled The Replies Kerfuffle that We removed a setting that 3\% of all accounts had ever touched but for those folks it was beloved. … 97\% of all accounts were not affected at all by this change-the default setting is that you only see replies by people you follow to people you follow. ...
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Why Twitter's Engineers Hate the @replies feature - Biz Stone, Twitter's, recently wrote in a blog post entitled The Replies Kerfuffle that We removed a setting that 3\% of all accounts had ever touched but for those folks it was beloved. … 97\% of all accounts were not affected at all by this change-the default setting is that you only see replies by people you follow to people you follow. ...
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Why Twitter's Engineers Hate the @replies feature - Biz Stone, Twitter's, recently wrote in a blog post entitled The Replies Kerfuffle that We removed a setting that 3\% of all accounts had ever touched but for those folks it was beloved. … 97\% of all accounts were not affected at all by this change-the default setting is that you only see replies by people you follow to people you follow. ...
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He also has TTQT (Tuesday / Thursday Twitter Question Time), where he asks a question each evening, generally shortly after finishing work for the day, and gets lots of great answers in the form of @replies then blogs the replies later that evening.
Irish Blogs 2009
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Why Twitter's Engineers Hate the @replies feature - Biz Stone, Twitter's, recently wrote in a blog post entitled The Replies Kerfuffle that We removed a setting that 3\% of all accounts had ever touched but for those folks it was beloved. … 97\% of all accounts were not affected at all by this change-the default setting is that you only see replies by people you follow to people you follow. ...
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Any @reply tweets show up inline with the post they are replying to, making it much easier to follow the thread of conversation (@replies also show up as regular tweets, so if you mark a post as read, you'll still see any replies to it).
Wired Top Stories 2009
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Why Twitter's Engineers Hate the @replies feature - Biz Stone, Twitter's, recently wrote in a blog post entitled The Replies Kerfuffle that We removed a setting that 3\% of all accounts had ever touched but for those folks it was beloved. … 97\% of all accounts were not affected at all by this change-the default setting is that you only see replies by people you follow to people you follow. ...
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So if you see that you're getting '@replies,' which are just a public way of addressing another Twitter user so that others can see you've addressed them, if you see you're getting these in your replies tab, occasionally to respond to them in kind.
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