<story><title>Coming soon: express even more in 140 characters</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/express-even-more-in-140-characters?hn20160524</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>FiloSottile</author><text>&amp;gt; New Tweets that begin with a username will reach all your followers. (That means you’ll no longer have to use the ”.@” convention, which people currently use to broadcast Tweets broadly.) If you want a reply to be seen by all your followers, you will be able to Retweet it to signal that you intend for it to be viewed more broadly.&lt;p&gt;This is terrible. They are introducing a way to broadcast mentions without using .@, which is great. So why also making non-reply mentions forcefully broadcasted, with no way to hide them!?&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t want my @ThreeUKSupport tweets to go to all my followers.</text></comment>
<story><title>Coming soon: express even more in 140 characters</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/express-even-more-in-140-characters?hn20160524</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>atonse</author><text>Am I misunderstanding this statement?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; New Tweets that begin with a username will reach all your followers. (That means you’ll no longer have to use the ”.@” convention, which people currently use to broadcast Tweets broadly.) If you want a reply to be seen by all your followers, you will be able to Retweet it to signal that you intend for it to be viewed more broadly.&lt;p&gt;What if I don&amp;#x27;t want a reply to be broadcast in everyone&amp;#x27;s feed? (Not that it&amp;#x27;s private, but it&amp;#x27;s just not relevant and usually lacks context). Or are they saying that if you want it shown to everyone, retweet it and it&amp;#x27;ll show up to everyone?</text></comment>