Retweet this post: Why The New Retweet Function Is An Improvement

January 5th, 2010 admin

Recently I got into an interesting discussion with @nhangen and @rockyourday about the new retweet function. While I’d experimented with it, I wanted to see how I could make it work for me. What I discovered was a plethora of posts pointing out the flaws in the feature. Strangers were showing up in your stream It was taking away from the community driven aspect of the site. You couldn’t add commentary Now – these concerns are valid. However, what most people missed that this is an improvement on the old system. We now have more choice. Duncan Babbage says it best in a comment on outspoken media : I suggest that you need to see Twitter as two separate things, an underlying infrastructure and then secondly their own web interface …


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