>> Not only that, but the few times I've actually been on Twitter, half the
>> posts are replies to other people's posts, and there is LITERALLY NO WAY
>> to find out what they're replies to. (!) Seriously, the most basic, most
>> immediately obvious thing, the very first thing I tried to do, Twitter
>> can't do. WTF?
>
> I don't know if it's your eye-sight, or you are overlooking an obvious
> feature just for the sake of a good rant, but you can "unroll the
> conversation" to see exactly what they are replying to. If it's not
> there, them the person you are following was not really replying to
> anything someone said on Twitter. They might have "replied" to something
> the person said on tv or in a newspaper.
>
> Also, the strength of Twitter is not following certain individuals,
> although that can be interesting in the case of public figures or
> journalists, but following keywords (or hashtags), this way you can see
> what everyone has to say about topic X. This come especially handy in
> fast moving situations or live events, where no one has a complete
> picture of what is going on.

I looked at the Twitter pages for the cast of QC. Every single post was 
a reply to something one of the other cast members had said. (Then 
again, they're all fictional characters, so...) Literally, an entire 
page of half-conversations. Mostly between multiple unpeople.

I just went back to look, and holy hell, they've added a button to 
follow whole conversations. Not why the heck didn't it have that 2 years 
ago?? It's the single most obvious thing you would want! It's the second 
thing you'd implement, right after the ability to create an account and 
post stuff.

Now, if the real reason for using Twitter is to follow stuff that's 
happening in real life, then yes, I guess to me the system would be 
completely useless. I can't think of anything that happens in real life 
that I would actually give a damn about...

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