Tweet from Apr 23, 2013

Doug Bowman @stop
@rosspw Your guess is fairly accurate. Also, linkified URLs in mobile timelines is a fairly new thing: blog.twitter.com/2013/02/search…
Apr 23, 2013 via Twitter for Mac
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Doug Bowman @stop
Apr 23, 2013

@stop @rosspw So it’s not that we de-linkified usernames in the timeline, but rather, that we chose to add a new feature by only linkifying URLs.