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I hate trying to follow a conversation that I find on Twitter.

@someone, LOL, but what are you going to do with a typewriter after you finish with the whale?

Then I click, and the other person has posted a million things since then, and I can’t find whatever this message was in response to.

ALTER TABLE statuses ADD COLUMN response_to_id INT UNSIGNED DEFAULT NULL;

I know it’s not that simple in reality, but this would make Twitter a lot more accessible to people who don’t want to live and breathe the service 24/7 but occasionally read content from it.

Edit: Apparently this is sometimes possible with a tiny “in reply to” link below the messages. My mistake. (I bet a lot of people miss that.)