On November the 2nd, a chat message was addressed to me: @TonyMeyer - You have any ideas for articles you need written? I was going to review a book, but I likely won't finish it for another week or two. ("Embassytown" by China Mieville.) This happened again on the 13th of November: @To...

To use you as an example: @TonyMeyer, i.e. an exact match will cause a notification if you've been in the room in the past seven days. @Tony, i.e. a first name match (to be precise, a word boundary match) will cause a notification if you've been in the room in the past two days. @Ton will notif...