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I’ve noticed an increase in the use of folks adding a leading ’@’ character to user names (and even real names) in threaded discussion boards, mailing lists, and E-mail.

I don’t think any of the uses I’ve seen were meant to aid any sort of automated text processing; it appears to be a bad habit that perhaps makes sense on Twitter, but is merely line noise elsewhere.

Please consider: No Twitter Litter.