I don't think people really understand what the change that Twitter made about replies was, but still, a lot of people are complaining about it.
Here is the Twitter announcement about the change:
When you go to your Twitter page on the web, and click on Settings, one of the tabs that you get is Notices. In there was an option that actually was a bit difficult to understand in the first place, especially if you are not familiar with Twitter. This option allowed you to manage the replies that person A (@personA - someone you follow) sends to person X (@personX). Just to clarify, you are not @personA or @personX.
These are the three options that this setting used to offer:
@replies to the people I'm following. This was the default option; the one that the huge majority of people had, and the one that Twitter now uses. It means that you receive the replies that @personA sends to @personX, but only if you follow person A and person X. If you don't follow person X you don't see the replies that A sends to X. Example: More than a million people follow Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk). If you follow him, do you really want to receive the replies that @aplusk sends to his followers? You probably want to see the replies he sends to people you follow, but not the replies he sends to everybody else. If you do, I suggest you simply go to his profile. There you can see everything he writes to everybody else.
All @replies. Now this option doesn't exist anymore. This is the one that lets you see all the replies that all the people you follow send to all the people they follow. Who wants that?!?!
No @replies. Well, easy to understand you receive no replies. The only replies you receive are those send to you, but that's it.
Again, is people really in need of seeing all the replies that people you follow are sending? I think people are complaining without a real reason. If you never changed that @replies option in your Settings this change in Twitter won't affect you.
