<+elliottcable> fotoverite ⁓ Basically, there’s two situations in which a tweet from @A will not show up to
person @C, who follows @A
<+elliottcable> 1. if the tweet *starts* with an @ character as the very first character, followed by at
least one legal username character
<+elliottcable> 2. if the tweet is marked as a “reply̦” to another tweet, with the in_reply_to_status_id
property
<+elliottcable> now, neither of the above apply *if* @A is *also* following the third person, @B (for
instance, if the tweet *started* with @B, or if the in_reply_to_status_id was a tweet by @B.)
<+elliottcable> That is the *entirety of how it works*.
<+elliottcable> It’s a very long-standing belief that if you stick something before the @ at the start of a