{"id":17575,"date":"2017-03-31T14:25:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T18:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17575"},"modified":"2017-03-31T14:25:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T18:25:49","slug":"twitter-lengthens-replies-drops-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/31\/twitter-lengthens-replies-drops-eggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Lengthens Replies, Drops Eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2017\/now-on-twitter-140-characters-for-your-replies\">Twitter<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Twitter\/status\/847479110616047616\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2017\/now-on-twitter-140-characters-for-your-replies\"><p>Now, when you reply to someone or a group, those @usernames won&rsquo;t count toward your Tweet&rsquo;s 140 characters.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Who you are replying to will appear above the Tweet text rather than within the Tweet text itself, so you have more characters to have conversations.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>When reading a conversation, you&rsquo;ll actually see what people are saying, rather than seeing lots of @usernames at the start of a Tweet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OnLeaks\/status\/847485058529189894\">OnLeaks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OnLeaks\/status\/847485058529189894\"><p>Cool but this put a stop to the .@username trick... &#x1F615; How to display replies to all our followers in our timeline now?...<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2017\/rethinking-our-default-profile-photo\">Twitter<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/03\/31\/twitter-replaces-default-egg-profile-photo\/\">MacRumors<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2017\/rethinking-our-default-profile-photo\"><p>For the past seven years, everyone who has created an account on Twitter starts out with their default profile photo as an egg. This was a playful way to reference how eggs hatch into birds that send all the Tweets you see on Twitter! But now it&rsquo;s time for something new &#x2013; something that encourages people to upload their own photos for more personal expression. So today, we&rsquo;re introducing a new default profile photo.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter (tweet): Now, when you reply to someone or a group, those @usernames won&rsquo;t count toward your Tweet&rsquo;s 140 characters. [&#8230;] Who you are replying to will appear above the Tweet text rather than within the Tweet text itself, so you have more characters to have conversations. [&#8230;] When reading a conversation, you&rsquo;ll actually see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,96],"class_list":["post-17575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-twitter","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17576,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17575\/revisions\/17576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}