Workaround to Get All Your Twitter @Replies

Twitter's show me all @replies has not been working, which means you don't see people's replies to you unless you follow them. If you have a high ratio of followers to people you follow, you can really come off as a dick because of this bug. Thanks Twitter!

Luckily there's a workaround involving Tweetscan

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Do a search for your Twitter username and subscribe to the resulting dynamic RSS feed. Problem solved. Hopefully Twitter gets their act together soon, though. Even though their scaling issues have nothing to do with Ruby on Rails, they still give plenty of FUD-fuel to the haters.

Comments

[Mike]

Are the replies not showing under your "Replies" tab either? @Replies from people you follow show up on your timeline, while @replies from people you don't follow should always show up under your "Replies" tab.

More than likely, the problem isn't limited to missing @replies directed to you, but missing tweets in general. The Twitter service has become completely unreliable.

Also, I know you aren't saying this, but a lot of people are confused that the @replies settings don't have anything to do with @replies directed to you. Ev explains this in this post:

http://blog.twitter.com/2008/05/how-replies-work-on-twitter-and-how.html#links

[Paul Barry]

It doesn't appear to be foolproof. If you do a search for @obie:

http://tweetscan.com/index.php?s=%40obie&u=&d=

You don't see this message:

http://twitter.com/pjb3/statuses/826241939

[Mike Moore]

I agree that the external systems seem to be more reliable than Twitter ATM. And they seem to do a better job of searching for and finding interesting tweets. So far I've found Summize to be the fastest and most reliable. I really like the layout and nested tweets in Quotably, but it seems to be slower than Summize and so I find myself using that more. I haven't used Tweet Scan before, but it seems to work but is also slower than Summize. All offer feeds for their displays, so the choice shouldn't be much of an issue.

http://summize.com/search?q=@blowmage
http://quotably.com/search/@blowmage
http://tweetscan.com/index.php?s=@blowmage

[Mike]

Actually, according to the first link in your post, you are saying that the @reply settings apply to @replies directed to you, and, according to @ev, that is incorrect.

[Chris Broadfoot]

Or hit up Summize and do a search for @obie

[Veez]

Finding the Summize service better: you can search for your own tweets via 'mremsik' or replies only via '@mremsik.' Additionally, the feed actually works in NetNewsWire and the result set was greater, including tweets that TweetScan missed.