I learned a pretty fascinating thing about Twitter today. The @user_name function that allows Twitter users to reply to a specific message or a specific users was designed BY users.
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, in a Ted Talk back in 2009, revealed that it wasn't part of the original platform. That is was users who came up with the solution. Williams also modestly confides that they did not anticipate how Twitter would be used to cover real-time events like breaking news stories.
It's an interesting (and brief) inside look into how users were and responsible for much of Twitter's evolution.
http://www.ted.com/talks/evan_williams_on_listening_to_twitter_users
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