Lately I keep finding when I reply to a tweet, once it's posted it's replying to multiple people, which it didn't show when composing. Not sure if it's a bug between Tweetbot <> Twitter API, or some weird Twitter change.
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I've just discovered what this is: apparently Twitter now lets you tag people in photos and replies @ mention the tagged people once posted, but Tweetbot doesn't know about it.
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Replying to @jogbert
Eww that's nasty. OOI how does that interact if you've used up all your characters? Is it actually @$foo in the text, or is it the out-of-band @$bar approach?

Jul 14, 2021 ยท 12:09 PM UTC

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Replying to @dsilverstone
I think Twitter stopped treating mentions as part of the character count some time ago, so I think it's the out-of-band thing. e.g. in replying to this tweet it says "replying to @dsilverstone" - for these tagged tweets I see it say the poster and the tagged person.
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That's bloody awful. I wonder if tweetdeck does as bad a job of telling you who you're replying to.
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