Users Testy Over Twitter Test of Removing Handles From Replies
Twitter is testing a way to pack more content into its 140-character limit, but this particular test hasn’t been very well-received.
Twitter is testing a way to pack more content into its 140-character limit, but this particular test hasn’t been very well-received.
Cara McGoogan of The Telegraph reported that some users of Twitter’s flagship iOS application are not seeing other users’ Twitter handles when replying to users or groups.
Tressie McMillan Cottom, assistant professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University, is one of the users in the test group, and she told McGoogan:
When I try to respond to a tweet, I have no idea to whom I’m responding.
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