I went ahead and curated a list of his best tweet replies, but I’ll spell the answers out in a simplified manner below. According to Williams:

• Twitter is working on a way to show entire back-and-forth conversations in the right-pane on New Twitter. Currently, they only show one tweet that a tweet is replying to.
• Many of the New Twitter ideas will find their way into the various mobile interfaces.
• Williams agrees that the new URL structure for Twitter isn’t pretty, but it’s needed to keep things fast.
• There are no plans for a way to make individual tweets private on a case-by-case basis.
• Twitter is thinking about an option to put DMs and @replies in the main timeline.
• There will eventually be a DM alert of some sort on the site to show you when you have a new message.
• Twitter.com will eventually use the User Streams API (real time updates).
• The Settings page will soon get an update to look like the rest of New Twitter.
• There are no plans to ever put any time of media in the tweet stream itself.
• Twitter may experiment with live-updating feeds instead of having the new tweet alert.
• There won’t be a Twitter movie — unless it’s an animated musical.
• “Also followed by” and “You both follow” are coming back — Twitter is figuring out how to re-implement them.
• Twitter is trying to think of a way to make it easier to see who has retweeted you.
• Williams likes that the right pane is the same size as the stream — he actually wants it wider.
• Twitter plans to keep on changing things up regularly — this redesign is not the end.
• Williams would like to see more stats for users on the front-end.
• Twitter is thinking about allowing users to change the color of the black top bar in New Twitter.
• New Twitter decodes all shortened links.
• Retweeting with comments is not coming.
• A new Tweetie for Mac is not coming anytime soon.
• The Fail Whale exists on New Twitter, but they’re working hard to keep him out of the waters.
• Twitter not currently working on a profile picture cropper.
• Animated avatars will not be allowed. Twitter finds them “distracting”.
• New Twitter will have Posterous support in the right pane soon.
• Tumblr and img.ly might be getting support soon as well. Twitter is working to add “many more” media providers.
• The ability to shorten a link on twitter.com is being worked on right now.
• Twitter is thinking about a “mute” button to block users temporarily (like Brizzly has).

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Authors: MG Siegler

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