I am really, surprisingly, LIVID about this. conversation killer from the conversation company. WTH. - Leslie Poston

Bleh. - Derrick

This is how I discover new people to HEAR organically. :( - Leslie Poston

Ugh. - Mitchell Tsai

Me, too. I'm actually surprised by how upset I am about this. Usually I take changes in stride, but this one is ridiculously stupid. - Jandy

I think this is stupid, even though I used the option, which is no longer a choice. I understand the reasoning for seeing every tweet including replies to people I'm not following, as it allows you to find new followers. I turned it off for API purposes, but I feel that you should have the choice to turn it off as I did several months ago. No need to change it, F'ing stupid. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

I'm UPSET. I've never been mad at Twitter before. I just co-wrote the dang Twitter book, for pete sake! I've tolerated outages, down time, maintenance, avatar loss, weird bahavior, etc but THIS - may be the end if they don't reinstate it. - Leslie Poston

So basically I need to run a search on my name to keep the same functionality? bleh - Schneider Mike

I agree, Kee - most of my current friends and connections, heck, even working with Laura on Twitter for Dummies and starting two new companies, was all from the "eavesdropping" @reply feature for people I DON'T follow. I hope they change it back. - Leslie Poston

Ok, this decision by Twitter to make this change is stupid and senseless, now I'm mad - Kim Landwehr from BuddyFeed

Mike - This won't have any effect on replies directed at you. It only effects tweets such as if you were following @me and I sent a tweet with @leslie, who you don't follow. You wouldn't be able to see this, even if you may have wanted to. Before, there was a choice of whether you see replies sent to anyone from people you follow, replies only between people you follow, or no replies at all. Now there is only a default option, which is replies only between people you follow. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

as I explain the reason this is bad over and over on Twitter I only get more and more mad. Twitter taking the line referencing confusion fro the lame-o original post doesn't make it better either. Put the feature back! It was always opt in! Why even take it away?? :( - Leslie Poston

Still feel there's some clarification needed here Leslie. (By the way ... long time :) ... I'll ad your FF string to my blog post for others reactions. Hope is is good with you! - Charlie Anzman

Please do. :) - Leslie Poston

James Thanks for the clarification. That's really odd. So it sort of privatizes your tweeting with anyone that I don't know. Twitter is supposed to be wide open isn't it? This is bad for brands who are tweeting with large numbers of people. Their conversations are supposed to be (generally) for the benefit of anyone experiencing the brand and this might mean brands/people need to repeat themselves. Does the conversation still appear in searches? - Schneider Mike

Done ! .... Be interesting to see this play out. As for me, I'm wondering why I'm blogging at 1 AM :) - Charlie Anzman