However, receiving one-sided fragments via replies sent to folks you don’t follow in your timeline is undesirable.
— Biz Stone about a “small change” on the Twitter blog. What?! As Jeffrey Zeldman points out, “discovering people, topics, and conversations through friends’ @ replies was one of the joys of Twitter”. This is a terrible decision: happy for it to not be the default setting, but at least retain the option. Pretty sure the feedback on this one will be deafening.