Props to Leo Laporte

I like how Leo Laporte uses Twitter. Remember several months ago when Twitter changed the way it displays @replies? Used to be, if you followed Leo you’d see every one of his tweets.  After the change, if Leo posted a reply to someone AND the tweet began with, for example, @username, you’d only see the tweet if you followed both Leo and @username.

Leo gets around this by (nearly) always putting something in front of @username.  This way all of his followers can see every one of his tweets, and also butt in on a conversation if we’d like. ;)

Thanks for including all of us in your conversations, Leo.

You can find Leo on Twitter here: http://twitter.com/leolaporte/  If you haven’t yet checked out Leo’s shows on TWiT.tv, do it.  I’m especially a fan of This Week in Google, aka TWiG.

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  • Thanks, Jeff! Truth is, I only just figured out Twitter's arcane reply rules (@dane clued me in when I sent him a congratulations on 15 years in business and only our mutual followers saw it). I try, these days, to put the @ name in a subordinate clause except when I really want to limit my answer to only our mutual followers. I bet 90% of Twitter users have no idea what we're talking about!!!
  • My pleasure, Leo! I think you're probably right about 90% of Twitter uses not know what we're talking about. Here's to being a power user.
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