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Twitter has added a useful parameter (in_reply_to_status_id) to its API which lets you indicate the specific tweet you are responding to. This is pretty cool since it also lets you reply without using the @username prefix.

It probably won’t take long until Twitter clients will pick it up, in the meantime: fire up a terminal and type:

curl -u username:passwort -d status="text of the message" -d in_reply_to_status_id="123456789" https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

(you can find the status-id of the tweet you want to respond to at the end of its URL, see the screenshot below, and you need to use your username and password, of course)