So why did the web client start force-including your own ID when you reply to other people? It eats characters to no benefit.
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Replying to @St_Rev
it also adds @ youtube when you reply to a tweet that links to a youtube video. Ditto @ wordpress, others.
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Replying to @random_eddie
That's been the case for a long time. What's new is: if I reply to this tweet, it will start it with
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The leading
@St_Rev is new, and completely fucking useless. Eats characters.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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Unless I'm hallucinating, which is always possible
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I heard they were going to stop counting (and displaying) the reply handles. Maybe part of that change?
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Problem is, the leading
@St_Rev definitely does cut into character count.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
i just tried it and I can still delete the
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I delete it, yes. But it never showed up unless I was replying to myself and no one else.
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OK dafuq, I replied to this tweet to illustrate the problem and now there's no leading @St_Rev!
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