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Mom, this is how Twitter works

8 points| aqrashik | 14 years ago |momthisishowtwitterworks.com | reply

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[+] RyanMcGreal|14 years ago|reply
> by putting another person’s username at the start of a statement, it limits who sees it

Is this correct?

[+] jlind|14 years ago|reply
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.
[+] perucoder|14 years ago|reply
LOL, I think this might be a little bit ahead of its time. My mom still needs MomThisIsHowACellPhoneWorks.com
[+] mattmanser|14 years ago|reply
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...