Twitter conversations can be notoriously hard to parse — just ask the company’s CEO and co-founder, Jack Dorsey, who participated in a conversation with Recode’s Kara Swisher yesterday that was deemed a “chaotic hellpit” that even Dorsey said was “definitely not easy to follow.” Part of the reason is that Twitter doesn’t automatically organize conversations in ways that are easy to dissect, and the volume of voices chiming in on certain threads can become overwhelming.

Dorsey says the company is hard at work on the issue, and one new feature Twitter is testing — called profile preview overlays — aims to address the problem of following threaded conversations, in particular. Typically, when you look at a tweet’s replies and then click on…

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