It's not an update. It was an option in your settings. Now it's not an option. That's the issue. #fixreplies - Marina Martin

kind of funny that even kevin doesn't know the little details of something as 'big' as twitter... *shrugs* - Chris Heath

+1 for Marina's comment - Elian Chrebor

Ok, ++hate. No idea why, saw it on ff, must follow! Scoble says so! - Darryl Adams from Nambu

I'd rather you just get a filter, personally :) - Jason Nunnelley

They could have just changed the default on the setting and make it an opt-out thing.... why remove the option? - Mark Jenniskens

In Soviet Twitter you have no switch off for feature. Feature switches off you. - Jason Nunnelley

Mark, the user option, when it was accessible, always was opt-in (ie. defaulted to hide replies to non-follows). So "why remove the option?" is doubly good question. - Micah Wittman

Mark: Micah is right, the default was and is the current setting, but now there's no option to have it the other way. - Chris Heath

I don't want to hate you - but since you asked me to... - shira

But you've always had the option to turn those off. The larger problem here is that Twitter removed this option altogether. We no longer have the choice. In a recent blog post, it also finally explained that this was partly an engineering decision, and that an alternative may arrive soon. - David Chartier from BuddyFeed

So make opt-in for those who want it - David Alfaro from twhirl

For people who only follow a few, but have a ton of followers, I'm sure it's fantasitc. For those of us that really enjoy the social aspect of social networks, it's a bag of sticks and stems. - Mike Lewis

hard 2 hate u, but I gotta disagree on this 1. I'm afraid twitter changes will kill discovery. I like my random twitter cmnty. - sukhjit

For established users content with their existing network turning off @ replies to people I don't follow quiets the noise. As a new user building a network, seeing who other people I followed were conversing with has been invaluable. You're hardly the average user. I don't hate you. Not for this comment anyway! j/k - Gregg Scott

for a geek, you more or less miss the boat. You HAD the option all along. why advocate to take my options away? geez. - Karoli

I wanted the option. I hear what you're saying, but that's not how I roll. Why take away the option? - phil baumann

I don't hate you either. but all these twitter users sure do--and more every hour. Why would you force your way of using Twitter on them? They don't all have enormous followers they never read, as you do. They rely on the social graph that you're advocating that twitter now remove. 95% of the value I have gotten from Twitter came from discovery of people my follows knew. It's simply a bizarre recommendation. What's wrong with an option? http://search.twitter.com/search... - Shoq

Its not about hating you, for a group of people who fancy themselves pioneers of community, you would think that would equate to a basic understanding of the functions of said communities. What you have shown is that its really a tool for you guys, and your friends to keep tabs on all 45 replies you want to see, and hang the rest - at least be honest about that. People other than Ashton Kutcher made this space what it is. Its called social media for a reason. - Bailey McCann

@Bailey McCann +10 on community comments. applause. - Karoli

Bailey +10000 You hit the nail on the head. I just wish I could have said that better myself :P - Mike Lewis

Yeah you could have turned it off a long time ago to clean up your stream Kevin. Now it's not a choice. :( #fixreplies - Wolfman-K

Bailey, bada bing +1000. That is precisely how most feel. What is all the more galling is that there is this pretense that this came from "users." Twaddle. Who did they ask, besides Kevin? @theEllenShow? @aplusk? @the_real_shaq? I have yet to discuss this with a single "real" user who likes it, wants it, agrees with it, or finds it to be anything but a consummate expression of near-Zuckermanesque hubris. - Shoq

NPR's story on this:. http://www.npr.org/blogs... - Shoq

of course kevin rose likes it zzz - Ryan Underdown

I think it's Twitters way of dealing with the growth in traffic. By reducing features like this, it starts to reduce some of the burden on the overall system. I assume that you can still use search in Tweetdeck etc to see everything about whatever you're into and discover people that way. - Michael Jones

Consider only being able to see Digg stories that our friends had contributed to as that would remove similar discovery - Joe Dawson

#fixreplies: Oh, poor, poor Kevin Rose, you with your "overwhelming" Twitter stream following all of 169 people. God forbid it should be muddied by "undesirable" @ replies from them to the unwashed masses.. this is the same tone-deafness that Twitter showed in their original announcement, calling this massive change "A small settings update" & getting all Orwellian: "..removes this undesirable & confusing option." What, did they take Fail PR lessons from Zuckerberg? - Alex Schleber

Was that an Update? :s - Sardar Mohkim Khan

Would someone please explain this whole (@)reply update change to me? - dren

OK, I got it nevermind. XD - dren

Your point is well-made, however. I sometimes like to interject into conversations and can sometimes discover new people that way, but A LOT of the time I get pieces and fragments, particularly after 6pm & on weekends. You get comments back and forth like "thanks, man" with reply, "you rock, too" which add no value, and pollute an individual stream - Tonks

Liking this thread for the comments. - Daniel J. Pritchett

OPTIONS. well hinted, visible personal options to customize one's account is always the best solution .. possibly also, do the polls/collabo conferences before, just to see how people/users would be interested in co-designing their product. - Petr Buben