I kind of get twitter now. The recent SXSW made me see the light. it’s not just micro blogging as I had been using it for. It’s a global irc chat. So the point of following someone is the point of being able to talk to them in a safe way. So then whomever follows you you may as well follow them. Of course when you reply to (”@”) someone you don’t really have to be following them to send them a message. The weird thing is if you use the twitter web site you won’t see replies unless you are following the sender. The other day I installed twitter on my blackberry and it had a feature to see replies and I found people were replying to my posts but on the public timeline I suppose. I just was not seeing them on the web site. Now to find a web app that will.

According to the Twitter settings:

“Always: all @ replies

I receive all @replies from people I follow, even if I don’t follow the person to whom the @reply is directed.”

Notice it does not say “@replies from people I do not follow”.That is a problem so how do I do this from the web? The only way I have now is to either use the Blackberry app. or scrape the public timeline.

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