Twitter is looking to get rid of the hashtags and the @replies, according to a report on BuzzFeed.
The BuzzFeed report is based on the comments of Vivian Schiller, head of news at Twitter,during her talk at the Newspaper Association of America’s mediaXchange conference in Denver. The report says that “Schiller called at-replies and hashtags “arcane” and hinted that Twitter might soon move them into the background of the service.”
On Schiller’s comments, Twitter has said that she was echoing what CEO Dick Costolo had said in a recent earning’s calls. Costolo’s statement however had not specifically mentioned @ and # symbols.
He had said, “By bringing the content of Twitter forward and pushing the scaffolding of the language of Twitter to the background, we can increase high-quality interactions and make it more likely that new or casual users will find this service as indispensable as our existing core users do.”
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