At one point, putting “@” before a username wasn’t a well-known way to reach out to someone. But Twitter’s made that action a bit more commonplace. As many on Twitter know, by putting “@” before a username allows the sender to reach out to others on Twitter. Today, socialmedian, a second-generation social news site, released Replize, a feature that extends the “@username” function. (Here’s a video of Jason’s pitch on what socialmedian is).
Here’s how the new Replize feature, according to socialmedian.
- To send a replize to any user on socialmedian, all a user needs to
do is include @username for any username(s) anywhere in the comments
field. If you click the “reply” link next to a comment we’ll
pre-populate the other person’s @username. You can include several
people in a replize, e.g. @jasongoldberg @louisgray @nishith. The
replize will be sent to all. - We then highlight the replize to those users in their homepage News
Feed. Users can also be notified by email whenever they have a replize. - We’ve also added a “Replize” tab to the homepage so that users can
easily view all their replize in one place, and thus quickly see all
the stories they have been included in discussion
