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Stay N' Alive: Screenshots Emerge of the New Twitter Retweet Feature

  • Chris Charabaruk · 1 month ago
    One of the good things about the current method of retweeting is that it allows a person to add their own two cents to the content they're sending on. From these screenshots, it doesn't look like that's possible.

    This is a good addition by Twitter, but it's going to need some work if they intend everyone to actually put it to use. I like being able to add something, sometimes, to my retweets, so I certainly won't use the new method exclusively when I get it.
  • Jesse Stay · 1 month ago
    Chris, I agree, but I think eventually people will forgo that if this is
    easier. Also, Twitter is going to add threaded replies I'm pretty sure, and
    when that happens a comment to something like that would be pretty easy. I
    think this way will become the preferred method.
  • axisportals · 1 month ago
    The threaded replies really would bring twitter in closer proximity to the FF experience, but I do wonder how listing out the RTs will impact the Twitter economy. I tend not to like the echo chamber that endless RTing creates. Will this ease that or make it worse? With lists already in place, do we really need to RT? Why, for instance, *ever* RT Mashable or Scoble? Stick them in a list, run the list feed to a widget, all done.
  • Chris Charabaruk · 1 month ago
    I think this will ease the "echo chamber", since it merely brings up the retweeted post, rather than making a duplicate as the current, old method does
  • axisportals · 1 month ago
    True, Chris--I hope you're right about that. Then again, the RT with a comment isn't just a copy, so . . . I'm in "let's see what it looks like in action" mode. How a thing is designed to be used and how people actually use it (lists being a case in point) don't always match.
  • Chris Charabaruk · 1 month ago
    The question of threaded replies, though... Will it be a FriendFeed model or a Blellow model? Will the replies be visible to all or just the person who posted the original tweet, or to the original poster and the retweeter?

    No matter how it's done, though, I don't see Twitter satisfying everyone. Unless Twitter starts pushing off people who continue to use the old way, which would probably turn into a PR disaster for them, I don't see the copy & paste RT dying any time soon.
  • Nick Shin · 1 month ago
    Thanks for the mention Jesse.
  • Jesse Stay · 1 month ago
    No problem Nick - thanks for sharing that with me! I wanted to make sure
    you got plenty of credit for being first with those.
  • John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises) · 1 month ago
    Nick, I'm going to click through to your original blog post in just a moment. Currently when I want to retweet, I switch over to slandr and use its one-button retweet functionality. Once I get the Twitter version, I'll compare the two and see which one I like better.
  • Harsh Agrawal · 1 month ago
    I find this update worth considering, but seems like my twitter profile is not as lucky as other
    lucky people who see this new update