The tweak "allows API clients to specify which status a status to be posted is in reply to, rather than our system assuming that it's in reply to the last message posted by the user specified by '@username'".
Reply sooner rather than later.
When asked about lack of progress on climate change agreements, she replied that, rather than waiting for a grand global agreement, we need to look for action at all levels, from our own homes to our schools, cities and nations.
Proponents of DCD might reply that permanence, rather than irreversibility, is the appropriate standard in this context (see, e.g., Bernat 2006, 41) or that DCD represents an instance where it is permissible to remove vital organs from someone who is dying but not yet dead.
When replying to questions, he tries to answer them, rather than simply shooting out scripted sound-bites.
For those companies who do embrace social media, it is vital to interact, by replying to users rather than just posting marketing messages.
Cardinal Simonis caused some distress in the Netherlands last March, when he was asked on television about the hundreds of complaints surfacing against the church and replied in German rather than Dutch, saying "Wir haben es nicht gewusst" — or, "We knew nothing".
When Time magazine asked Sinatra in March 1994, shortly after his collapse in Richmond, why he kept up the pace, he replied (by fax rather than in person, of course): "You write for a magazine...
Clients, Mr. Beckman said, appreciate receiving an instant reply to a question, rather than playing phone tag, and he likes being able to see which of his partners and employees are available at any given time.
One company that received help from the Maverick model is Voice Genesis, which developed an application that allows cellphone users to check e-mail and reply by voice transmission rather than text.
