How to View Conversation Context?

Discussion in 'Twitter' started by Raymond Ogden, Jun 13, 2020.

  1. #1
    I've only been on twitter a few years and never really used it much. Now I'm getting very involved with it and there's a question that, after hours of Googling, I can't find the answer to.
    Say I reply to a tweet and get involved in a semi-live conversation where we're all trading comments and replies. Then I may move on and have conversations in other threads I encounter.
    A couple of days may go by and then I'll see a reply notification from someone who's responding to something I said some time ago and all it says is something like "Oh yeah. Well, that's not the way I see it".
    Is there any away to view the whole of the thread, or at least a few entries before the reply, to get a sense of what that person was responding to?
    Is there an internal Twitter feature or trick, or a separate addon or extension, or a substitute for the twitter app that would facilitate this?
     
    Raymond Ogden, Jun 13, 2020 IP
  2. JEET

    JEET Notable Member

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    #2
    I also don't use twitter that often, but if I remember correctly, there is a link "View conversation", clicking which opens the original tweetplus replies to it.

    You have to click the link in the notification first though...
     
    JEET, Jun 13, 2020 IP
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    #3
    I'm using the web version on a PC and I can't find "view conversation" at any menu depth. I recall seeing it on some rare occasion, but I think the OP has to designate their tweet as a convo before that button will appear.
     
    Last edited: Jun 14, 2020
    Raymond Ogden, Jun 14, 2020 IP
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    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    #4
    Just click on the notification and it expands to show who liked it, click again and it takes you to the thread
     
    sarahk, Jun 14, 2020 IP
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    #5
    Doesn't seem to work on the web version, but someone got me the right answer.

    "Click on the timeline next to the replier's name. That little ''3h'' next to the replier @. It will take you to another page with the full exchange."

    This issue can be marked as resolved.
     
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    Raymond Ogden, Jun 14, 2020 IP
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    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    #6
    Maybe I didn't explain it right

    I have this notification (excuse the typo in the tweet itself)
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    I click it and the tweet expands
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    I click anywhere on the tweet again and I go to the thread - you can see the tweet above mine in the screenshot, I just have to scroll up
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    sarahk, Jun 14, 2020 IP