Twitter continues to experiment with ways to make conversations on its platform easier to follow. In addition to its prototype app twttr,<\/a> which is testing threaded replies, the company also recently tested labeling replies to highlight those from the \u201coriginal tweeter\u201d<\/a> \u2014 meaning it would show when the person who first tweeted a post then replied within the conversation thread. Now, Twitter is changing up this labeling system again.<\/p>\n On Thursday, the company said a new test was rolling out which would instead label the \u201coriginal tweeter\u201d as \u201cAuthor\u201d \u2014 a term that\u2019s a bit more straightforward.<\/p>\n \u201cOriginal tweeter\u201d had been a nod to the commonly used term \u201coriginal poster,\u201d which designates the person who started a conversation on an internet message board or online forum. But if the goal was to make Twitter easier to understand for those who are less tech-savvy, \u201coriginal tweeter\u201d may have been more confusing if they weren\u2019t familiar with that reference.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In addition, Twitter is also now adding two new labels, \u201cMentioned\u201d and \u201cFollowing,\u201d which will be added to other important tweets in conversation threads.<\/p>\n \u201cMentioned\u201d will be added to any tweet posted by someone who the original tweeter\u2026er, Author<\/em>\u2026had referenced in their first tweet. The \u201cFollowing\u201d label, meanwhile, will be added to tweets from those Twitter users you\u2019re following as a way to catch their replies when scrolling through long threads.<\/p>\n