Twitter Users Are Torn About "Project Retweet"

September 28th, 2009 admin

We’ve been hearing about “Project Retweet” for a while, since Twitter announced the upcoming API change in August. “Project Retweet” is Twitter’s plan to integrate retweets (RT) into the Twitter architecture natively, as opposed to the current home-brewed implementation. Thing is, we’re not… This is a content summary only, please visit twittown.com for the full article.


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