Twitter waited a bit too long to implement this feature. But better late than never!

The Replies section has been spruced up and reads as @username instead. From now on you can expect to see all mentions of your username (tweets containing your username not only at the beginning but anywhere in between) to be available under the @username section.

This new feature not only gives web users a reason to rejoice, but it also makes twitter app developers' work a bit easier. Until now, every app developer (if they wanted to display tweets containing your username anywhere in it as an @reply) had to make use of the twitter search API along with the regular twitter API for retrieving all your replies. But not any more!

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I do not know when this was introduced, but I found it out today. The old pagination in twitter expected us to click the 'Next' button.

'Next' is passe now. I noticed twitter has added a 'More' button at the bottom of your timeline and on clicking it the next page results would be displayed in the same page! Now that's what I call AWESOME!

This small but significant improvement is making me love the twitter web interface more than ever! And considering the last two modifications which were a step towards monetizations (read them here and here), this is a welcome change.

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Did you see the latest change that has happened to your twitter homepage?

If you look carefully, below the area where your follower and update counts are displayed, you can now see a small info box which gives you meaning of various words!

 

As you can see, there's a definition for "twitter search" here!

Now that seems interesting and as I mentioned in my previous post, this again could be an excellent way to monetize twitter!

But the big question is, how many would really be using the plain old twitter web interface and not adopting to some of the super Adobe AIR clients such as TweetDeck or Twhirl?

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