See all ‘@’ Messages in Twitter

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Did you know that if someone sends you an ‘@’ message via Twitter, that unless the symbol is at the beginning of the sentence, it doesn’t turn up in your Twitter replies?

For instance, this message appeared in my replies tab:


This one, however, did not:

I don’t really know why this is the case, but if you want to make sure you see all tweets that mention your name there is an easy workaround.

Go to Twitter search, type in your username, for instance ‘@madlid’ (don’t forget the ‘@’ symbol first) and then subscribe to the RSS feed.  Voila.  Every time someone mentions you in their tweets, you’ll be notified.

Subscribing to @ comments is also useful if you want to see what people say about, or to,  a particular person who is on Twitter; an easy way to keep track of friends and/or foes.

10 comments:

  1. ThinkingSerious
    29 November 2008 18:19

    Thanks! I found that I missed some past tweets after doing this search. I always thought all of the @ replies were on the Replies tab.

  2. Vilma
    10 January 2009 8:11

    Excellent, practical posts. I’ve already “Twittered” it and forwarded your link to my clients to spread through their offices. I always gain from such posts. Thanks for sharing.

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  3. krissy
    20 February 2009 20:12

    Wow, I didn’t realize this. Thanks!

    krissy knox :)

    follow me on twitter:

    http://www.twitter.com/iamkrissy

    @iamkrissy

  4. Wilma Kramer
    28 March 2009 17:01

    If you’re not the RSS type but find e-mail more convenient to be notified of things, you could create a Google Alert, like this: [@yourname site:twitter.com]. As it occurs, daily or whatever frequency works for you. That way, when anyone tweets with your name, a reply, retweet or otherwise, it’ll come up in an alert sent straight to your e-mail inbox. Sweet.

  5. JerryS
    18 April 2009 22:23

    How interesting. I wonder why it does that. Surely, it could be fixed.

    The Google alert sounds nice. If you don’t get hundreds of e-mails already. ;-)

  6. bootpress
    14 July 2009 15:35

    I didn’t know about it before…now i know how important the @ is..i’ll try this…thanks for the tip..

  7. bodydetox
    30 July 2009 7:24

    Twitter is very addictive. I like Twitter more than blogging. the messages are short and straight to the point.

  8. Irwinator
    13 August 2009 12:45

    They do now.

  9. acnetreatmentsguy
    13 September 2009 8:44

    i really love to use Twitter. i was addicted to Blogging before the birth of Twitter. Now i am addicted to Twitter.

  10. melatoninTechy
    27 September 2009 21:32

    i just love Twittering compared to blogging. i was a blog addict and now i am a Twitter addict.

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