No, Twitter's update won't make all your replies publicRemember that time Twitter announced some upcoming changes to its social media platform and the internet misunderstood the company's confusing blog post? That was fun, right? Good times, good times.
By now you may have heard that Twitter's got a few changes in the works. Basically, the company's rolling out new features that will give everyone a full 140 characters of text in each Tweet — @names, images and other media attachments, and more won't count against your treasured 140 characters.
That's all fine and dandy, but the company also announced another change that's setting the internet ablaze with Twitter-is-doomed-and-or-confusing-hot-takes:
Goodbye, .@: These changes will help simplify the rules around Tweets that start with a username. 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 follow...
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No, Twitter's update won't make all your replies public
