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Tweet replies no longer show who users are replying to

Tweet replies no longer show who users are replying to

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This definitely won't make Twitter even more confusing.

By Jay Peters

Mar 28, 2023, 6:14 PM UTC|

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Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge

Twitter's latest baffling change makes replies a lot more difficult
to sift through. Now, when you're looking at replies, tweets don't
actually show who the user is replying to, making them look like a
confusing string of out-of-context missives.

The change muddies up the ever-worsening Twitter experience in a
bunch of small ways. If you click on a tweet with replies, you'll see
those listed under the tweet as you used to, but they don't have as
obvious of a connection to the parent tweet. Replies to your tweets
will still show up in your Notifications tab, but they just look like
random tweets that might not be there intentionally.

Basically, as my colleague Tristan Cooper put it, "I love how every
reply now looks like a vague subtweet on the timeline."

Interestingly, you may have noticed that the above tweet embed shows
that Cooper is replying to me. I'm also seeing reply information on
TweetDeck. And sometimes, on Twitter.com, I can see a gray line
connected to replies on one of my own tweets.

Perhaps that all means this change is just a bug. But given the
general product messiness and cost cutting at Elon Musk's Twitter,
I'm not holding my breath. We pinged Twitter for comment, but its
press email auto-replied with a poop emoji.

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