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Twitter plans official support for retweets
If you've been on Twitter since the beginning, you know that @replies weren't always supported the way they are now. The @username convention started from the ground up, with Twitter's users, and the functionality was coded afterward. Now, the same thing is happening with retweets, according to a blog post by Twitter's Biz Stone. Although the design hasn't been finalized, "Project Retweet" looks like it will include a "retweet" link next to each tweet. Instead of the conventional "RT:" in front of retweeted posts, they'll appear to your followers as they were written, with a "retweeted by" note at the end, next to the date and time of the tweet. At first, people will probably wonder why they're seeing posts by folks they don't follow, but I'm sure users will eventually learn to assume they're seeing retweets. Besides, "RT" was taking up valuable characters!
Project Retweet rolls out in "a few weeks or so," according to Biz. This way, app developers have time to support the functionality. Retweeting has been added to the API, so adding it to apps should only be a small hassle. I'm predicting iPhone apps will lag behind desktop apps in adding the new retweet feature, though, while their updates wait in Apple's App Store approval queue.
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Sam Cornwell said 11:24AM on 8-14-2009
I don't care to see RT's of people that i follow... i alread saw the original tweet, i don't care to see hundreds of RT's in my feed when someone says to RT something. If i wanted to see who else was RTing something, i could do a search. It will clutter my feed.
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joem said 3:03PM on 8-14-2009
Great. Just what Twitter needs: an easier way to sully the signal-to-noise ratio.
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