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Re: Screenshots Emerge of the New Twitter Retweet Feature

Harsh Agrawal — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:40:28 -0000

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

Re: Screenshots Emerge of the New Twitter Retweet Feature

John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:55:50 -0000

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.

Re: Screenshots Emerge of the New Twitter Retweet Feature

Jesse Stay — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:45:22 -0000

No problem Nick - thanks for sharing that with me! I wanted to make sure
you got plenty of credit for being first with those.

Re: Screenshots Emerge of the New Twitter Retweet Feature

Nick Shin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:36:50 -0000

Thanks for the mention Jesse.

Re: Screenshots Emerge of the New Twitter Retweet Feature

axisportals — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:01:44 -0000

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.

Re: Screenshots Emerge of the New Twitter Retweet Feature

Chris Charabaruk — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:59:24 -0000

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.

Re: Screenshots Emerge of the New Twitter Retweet Feature

Chris Charabaruk — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:56:57 -0000

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

Re: Screenshots Emerge of the New Twitter Retweet Feature

axisportals — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:45:13 -0000

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.

Re: Screenshots Emerge of the New Twitter Retweet Feature

Jesse Stay — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:28:59 -0000

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.

Re: Screenshots Emerge of the New Twitter Retweet Feature

Chris Charabaruk — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:27:00 -0000

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.