Twitter’s latest alteration has left many users bewildered and frustrated. The change in the replies section has made it considerably more challenging to navigate. The tweets are no longer displaying who the user is replying to, leading to an array of out-of-context and confusing messages.
The new change has added to the growing dissatisfaction of users with Twitter’s performance, which has been on a downward trajectory for some time. When viewing replies to a tweet, they still appear as a list below the original post, but the connection to the parent tweet is no longer as clear. Notifications for replies to one’s own tweets still exist but are harder to decipher since they appear as standalone tweets, with no context indicating that they are in response to the original tweet.
It’s interesting to note that Cooper can be seen responding to me in the Twitter embed above. On TweetDeck, one can also see details about replies. On Twitter.com, you can occasionally notice a grey line that links to replies to one of your own messages.
All of that may indicate that this shift is merely a bug. We’re not holding my breath, though, given the overall messiness of Elon Musk’s Twitter’s products and cost-cutting measures.
Twitter has changed replies back to the way they used to work — well, as of this writing, only the web. Hopefully they’re changed back on iOS soon, too.
