@Reply updates

March 31st, 2009

OK, so I know I’m super slow on this bit of news, but I can’t ignore it.

The Twitter @replies tab is now renamed to @<your username>. Why? Because it no longer includes just replies – it includes mentions too.

This is fantastic as I always have a search.twitter.com window open with my handle searched during the day. I did this because I realized I was missing dozens of mentions. (I don’t use Tweetdeck as it doesn’t keep track of all of my friends.) But now, @acmaurer takes care of that. Great job, Twitter.

However, I don’t think I’m going to say good-bye to search.twitter.com quite yet. I love the real-time updates, and I love how it notifies me in the tab every time there’s a new search result. So, until Twitter’s @acmaurer can notify me when I receive a public message or mention, I think I’ll stick with my method.

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Captain Jack

I could not use Tweetdeck for it's not supported on my older computer system. So I went with TweetGrid.com and discovered it is a very powerful twitter app. Second app I use is iTweet.com. Nice little app that has a really cool nesting feature. I think nesting should be a standard feature on all apps. You ever get a tweet from hours ago and don't know what you said to them last or what they said to you? Nesting really solves that problem. iTweet has many nice built in tools like URL shortener, TwitPic, and Symbols.

Captain Jack

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The past year has brought about many changes -- one, I'm no longer at the Chicago Tribune. After a great two years there, I've moved on to Creative Director at Consumer Media Network. I'm also no longer "acmaurer" technically, since I married my best friend in June '11. I'm now Amanda Woodhead, but between you, me and the Internet, I'll always be acmaurer. So thanks again for stopping by, and here's to some great conversations.

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