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Twitter Briefly Changed!

After iOS 10.2 Twitter Briefly changed!!………..Then went back to normal.

How you ask?

Well they dropped the “@” sign from replies.

This allowed people to tweet as many people as they want without worrying about character count as the “@” usernames didn’t get counted in their tweet.

Not long after Twitter went into a slight Frenzy and Twitter sent out this tweet:

” Today, an experiment around replies accidentally went out to everyone on iOS briefly. Upside, we got helpful feedback – we’re listening!” – @Support

While they were toying with this and experimenting with a few number of users, people were NOT happy this morning:

Mashable

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Click here to listen to the guys talking about this on the show!