Twitter has improved a lot, though.

In this case, however, I think there’s more confusion over one of our settings than there is a problem with our reliability.

As you note in your update and the comment above, you did not see the @ replies because they were directed to people you do not follow.

By default we do not show you @ replies directed at people you do not follow. Therefore those posts were never going to make it into your friends timeline. Now that you’ve changed your setting, you’ll see everything.

The reason you saw Rob’s reply to Chris is because he made a typo. There is no user @chrisprillo; Chris’s username is @chrispirillo. If a username doesn’t match in an @reply, we send it out to everyone (because people use the @ reply for other meanings).

Now, I don’t want to give the impression that everything works perfectly. For one thing, it’s clear that this setting is confusing. And we’ve had bugs with how @ replys appear. There’s a lot more we need to do to improve both our user experience and our overall reliability.

But in this case I hope this helps explain why your test doesn’t actually show a deliverability problem.

Thanks.

Seems like a lot of these social sites get
a lot of press and hype but it’s really all
about deliverability and accountability.

You should ask yourself…IF your messages
get through does that do anything for you?

HITS= How Idiots Track Sales…

Therefore, the quality of the traffic
and the deliverability of the messages
to that traffic is critical…

Great post, keep up the good work

Daniel McGonagle
http;//marketersrelief.com