Twitter’s PR failure: Did its CEO lie or not have his facts straight?

First, everyone breath, Twitter restored its @ reply feature (albeit with a convoluted fix ). But that wasn’t before Evan Williams, the CEO of Twitter, lied to you. Or did he? On Tuesday night, Twitter dropped part of its @ reply feature that let users see conversations between their followers and users outside their network. Why? “Receiving one-sided fragments via replies sent to folks you don’t follow in your timeline is undesirable,” Williams said in a blog post Tuesda…

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