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Author Name: Alec Muffett
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So I forgot that I am literally the person who in 2007 requested that Twitter add a “Reply” button

2023-02-05 22:18:17+00:00

Back in the old days (2007) it was necessary to manually type-out:

@whomever YOU ARE WRONG AND I HATE YOU!

…in order to reply to a Tweet; replies were denoted by @ being the first character of a tweet.

This also presages putting a dot — as in .@whomever — at the start of a reply to make it a “public” or “open” response.

I am astonished that nobody (?) has yet demanded to return to this Year-Zero state of innocent grace in order to reduce “online harms”, much like putting pills into blister-packs in order to reduce suicides by making it harder to neck a bottle of paracetamol.

Do join my campaign to add a reply button to tweets on Twitter: http://tinyurl.com/3c45f7 — Alec Muffett (@AlecMuffett) September 5, 2007

The TinyURL still works, and links to this article:
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