Mom, this is how Twitter works

Posted by aqrashik on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @11:27AM
from the momthisishowtwitterworks.com dept.

http://www.momthisishowtwitterworks.com/

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Re:Mom, this is how Twitter works by RyanMcGreal on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @12:03PM (#2970058)

> by putting another person’s username at the start of a statement, it limits who sees it

Is this correct?

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Re:Mom, this is how Twitter works by jlind on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @12:36PM (#2970192)

It limits who sees it in their default stream. Anyone could still go to your page (assuming it's public) to see your tweets that start with a username, however.

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Re:Mom, this is how Twitter works by RyanMcGreal on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @01:39PM (#2970509)

Fascinating - I never noticed that.

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Re:Mom, this is how Twitter works by perucoder on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @11:44AM (#2969983)

LOL, I think this might be a little bit ahead of its time. My mom still needs MomThisIsHowACellPhoneWorks.com

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Re:Mom, this is how Twitter works by mattmanser on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @12:22PM (#2970123)

Why the u/vs?

It's not very good, it's not funny and it's not on topic. It uses weird things like @me without even explaining that @x means a username, @me means the author and is incredibly over verbose.

It's at times like this I wish I had a d/v still...

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