
The threaded reply design included lines that connected a tweet with the responses listed below it.
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Twitter is getting rid of threaded replies just months after incorporating them into the Twitter app, and into Twitter’s web portal.
“We asked and you let us know this reply layout wasn’t it, as it was harder to read and join conversations,” the company tweeted Thursday.
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We asked and you let us know this reply layout wasn’t it, as it was harder to read and join conversations. So we’ve turned off this format to work on other ways to improve conversations on Twitter. https://t.co/pA4Yd0QfyW
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) December 3, 2020
Intended to make conversations easier to follow, the threaded reply design included lines that connected a tweet with the responses listed below it. The idea was that it’d make it easier to tell who was replying