Twitter is a phenomenon. People are always finding new ways to use it and it becomes more and more addictive as you follow new people. But why is following people fun? This isn’t a MySpace “I have more friends than you” kind of deal. Following someone on Twitter means that you are listening to what that person has to say. Scoble summarized this very well in his “The secret to Twitter” post.
But what really makes Twitter great is the ability to have conversations between any number of people. Using @<username> you can send a reply to someone’s tweet. Replies to your tweets will show up automatically in your timeline. However, by default, Twitter is set to only show replies from people you follow. This doesn’t really follow the listening model, but luckily, you can listen to anyone reply to your tweets by changing a simple setting:
From the Home screen, click Settings, click on Notices, click on the @ Replies dropdown and choose “all @ replies”, and click Save.
Now you’re listening.