Point · Which? · it connects
Element 38
Point at a person, so they're brought in.
@-mention · tag
First known
Opened
2007Twitter: start an update with '@biz' and it is saved to Biz's Replies tab, so he sees it. Users made up the @ habit; Twitter built it in.
See also: mIRC highlight feature, by April 2001: chosen 'highlight items' in channel text raise a highlight event (does not name the nickname).
“At some point, Twitter-ers came up with their own method of directing updates to one another using an @ symbol. ... if somebody Twitters "@biz liking the new Replies tab!" it will get saved at Twitter.com/replies.”
Twitter's own post credits its users with the @ convention. IRC clients that alert you to your nickname are probably older.
Someone opened the dated document itself. The source.
- ReadingValue
Specimen № 38 — operate freely
Someone has to book the table. Mention them and send. Then start over and try someone else.
Fig. 38 — Mention
000 readings · idle
Down the Point column
- it followsPoPoint
- it targetsPkPick
- it remembersSeSelect
- it connectsMeMention
- it guessesThThat
- it actsPuPoint out
Read down and Point gets heavier: each step is the same act, on a machine that keeps track of more.
Bodies
The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Mention takes.
- @-mention
- tag