The interwebs were ablaze this morning over a malicious, cross-site scripting security hole in Twitter.com that took over countless accounts and filled millions more with meaningless spam and porn. Perfect way to wake up, eh? By early this afternoon, Twitter PR issued a statement saying that everything was patched, and that it was safe to return to using Twitter.com directly. What Twitter didn’t mention, however, is that they tossed in a couple of new features to boot — “Reply to all” and “Auto-complete”.

Replay to All will now include all @users in replies. For those who simply want to reply to one — it looks like you’ll have to manually delete them from here on out. +1 for some users, -4 for others. You win some and you lose some. The auto-complete feature looks more neutral though. Now when you’re on Twitter.com and start typing the “@” symbol and a letter, the people you most frequently reply to will now pop up.

If you only use 3rd party services to access Twitter, you’ve no doubt had the aforementioned features for some time now. But for those who still call Twitter.com home, it’s a nice little surprise. Thoughts?

Source:
TechCrunch