Twitter, a popular micro-blogging service, announced a new feature: threaded replies.
Their developer API makes this possible, and while users have fun with the feature, developers are already getting giddy about this. Twitter API has an optional parameter: in_reply_to_status_id. This allows API clients to specify which tweet is a reply to which previous tweet.
Threaded replies is a good solution to the problem that I discussed in my review of Quotably: lack of features to continue conversations in a seamless manner. If you have several conversations, you would lose track of which tweet was a reply to which tweet. Threaded replies solves this.
Threaded replies on Twitter will probably increase conversations. The only question is, whether developers can deploy it efficiently, and whether Twitter will tone down this feature in response to increased activity on Twitter.
Am looking forward to more activity on Twitter – why don’t you follow me? 
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This is nice. Sometimes i got confused when people replied to my older tweets.