Wherever you write your updates, all you need to do to reply to someone is to type @(person's username). The username is the most important part - you cannot write their displayed name instead, which in many cases is completely different - e.g. my displayed name is "janey!" but my twitter username is "janeylicious" (the part you get after http://twitter.com/). For my client and Twitter to actually mark it as a reply so I can see it's a reply, you need to write @janeylicious and not @janey!.
Generally clients will have an easier way for you to reply to someone - e.g. I use a client called Twitterrific, and I just need to have the tweet I want to reply to selected, and then I hit command+2, and it automatically does the @username part for me. Hope that helps. Cheers, jane On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Chelsea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry this is off topic, but I assume a lot of you have used Twitter more > than I have. My question: when starting up a conversation, do you have to go > to the Reply section? Or can you just type @(person's name) and type your > message whereever you are? > >
