Precisely. Before you had to be purposeful about it by adding the . before the @.
Now it's automatic, and possibly unintended. Send a slightly rude tweet to someone you're mad at? Maybe sarcasm that some of your followers don't see as sarcasm? Now your friend may get harassed by your followers.
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It's going to make it far easier. While they could dot prefix, they usually didn't. Now they don't have to, and they get bonus visibility.
Precisely. Before you had to be purposeful about it by adding the . before the @.
Now it's automatic, and possibly unintended. Send a slightly rude tweet to someone you're mad at? Maybe sarcasm that some of your followers don't see as sarcasm? Now your friend may get harassed by your followers.
@jerk is usually very purposeful.