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Ben Lang — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:18:44 -0000

cool i hope its done soon!

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re2 — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:53:30 -0000

people like me who dont have an web-connected mobile phone.

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Edward — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:24:14 -0000

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Rebecca Gill — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:35:10 -0000

Very happy to see Twitter continuing to expand functionality and attempt to offset the Facebook Lite news so prevalent lately. Since I am one of the FEW who to use Twitter online, I will be using the feature.

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Steve — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:06:05 -0000

Great Article on the Retweet project. Let me share a website of that you can have a user base of Twitter users retweet your messages and earn free credits. It is called reTweet.it
You can then take your free credits and get your own messages retweeted. There is also an option for people that do not want to wait to earn retweets to just pay for the user community to review their tweets and if they want to send or retweet the message to their followers they can.
Usually only the best tweets get retweeted. This is a powerful promotion tool for those on Twitter.

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ssaadahmed — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:09:40 -0000

Hightime. Always thought that RT ought to be a standard native feature

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lukaswrites.com — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:41:18 -0000

that's great ! twitter is the best !

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Hercules K — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:31:47 -0000

i do, and probably a very significant margin! it's great that they added this.

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LaurelPapworth — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:32:09 -0000

Twitter is a great distribution social network already and the retweet is powerful. But FFFF is better than FFF - Find, Filter, FINESSE (or comment) and Forward. Missing the personal note is missing a fundamental part of the retweet. Even if it's just an "Awesome Post" or "Too Funny!" or "is this true?"...
ReThink the ReTweet. Please.

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zafarali — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:45:48 -0000

nice.

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Aadil Pitafi — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:19:18 -0000

That's gonna be cool!

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@SteveKesh — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:38:04 -0000

Nice! I've actually been using the "Seesmic" desktop Twitter app and one of the features I've enjoyed most about it is being able to Retweet like this.

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Ted Thibodeau Jr — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:08:04 -0000

You know, if the Twitter team actually *used* Twitter, or consulted with power users, they'd stop doing things like this that break usability in major ways.

"One click retweet" means I cannot edit the original at all -- no adding my commentary, no changing a passed URL to a bit.ly link that shows how many times *my* followers click it, no changes at all.

@Replies are *still* broken, so threaded conversation doesn't work as it *should* with post-reply-reply-reply -- they have to be post-post-post-post to be seen by people who don't follow us both.

What will Twitter break next? Leaving power users straining at the bit, waiting for the NEW site/tool/what-have-you that delivers *something* of what the old Usenet did... even if that's still a pale, pale shadow of the original... which at least includes the CONVERSATION which is the core of ALL social network sites/tools/what-have-you.

It's sad. Twitter *was* horrible and stupid, and yet delivered value. It's becoming horrible and stupid and *lacking* value. Sad, indeed.

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Mike Stenger — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:31:55 -0000

Got it! Big ups to you man for understanding it to this level. Thanks for that, makes a lot of sense now ;-)

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Jennifer James — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:04:17 -0000

I love this and have been hoping that Twitter would officially incorporate retweeting for a long time.

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alexandroid11 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:56:42 -0000

I have a question. If you wanted to comment on that before reposting it, is that possible?
Like currently, say I found a tweet by like this: "@bob: I like pie", I would tweet "Me too. RT @bob: I like pie."
Is that...possible to do with this?

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Guest — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:55:14 -0000

Twitter - Retweeeting - following streams of conversations will always be Twitters weak spot vs. Facebook's ability to comment, add media, etc... in streams.

If Twitter expects to survive and compete against a flurry of Facebook / Google udpates and progression to making conversation and sharing info as efficient as possible, then Twitter needs to add "comment" functionality right in the Twitter stream.

So what's my point?

Twitter needs to add commenting to the stream - PERIOD!

If they don't - they will eventually become nothing more than a source of spam broadcasts!

MARK MY WORDS.... mark my words!

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David — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:51:43 -0000

A very much needed feature. Glad to finally see it appear.

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lushradioonline — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:41:21 -0000

this is freakin' hot

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Claire the Great — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:40:26 -0000

man i cant wait :D

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Eric Fan — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:10:43 -0000

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Lee Jae Dong — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:59:30 -0000

good job!!!

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noknow — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:42:41 -0000

http://twitpic.com/ds4q7 - If you want a RT button now - install this greasemonkey script to ff http://bit.ly/CaAIb

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Ben Novakovic — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:33:46 -0000

I agree this is a great feature and its nice that Twitter has finally adopted it - but what happens if you want to value add to the tweet with your own text? It appears as though you can't do this on these mock-ups? I find that adding something to a retweet is much more interesting that just relaying information.

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Geoserv — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:20:16 -0000

Finally a ReTweet button for the web version.