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Re: Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?

SimoneIcough — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:49:47 -0000

With the new RT system, what if say 10 people RT that particular tweet but the tweet itself was already at 135 characters? Will some names be missed?

Re: Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?

Andrys — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:58:33 -0000

Pull down menu, probably

Re: Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?

Andrys — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:55:41 -0000

If someone you've chosen to follow would re-tweet a "disturbing image" or "raunchy stuff" then it's probably time to reconsider following that person when you're bothered by those things. You wouldn't be seeing those on your home stream except for the person you'd already chosen...

Re: Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?

Andrys — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:50:37 -0000

Right, and let us add them in the front so those following our alerts can see why we want them to see the retweeted item.

Re: Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?

Everlook — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:47:02 -0000

It might just be my lack of coffee, but none of this makes a whole lot of sense to me. I can see where they would want to try to streamline things, and somehow make it all look more professional, but it just seems a little unnecessary.

So instead of 'Yourname' RT @Someone (possibly RT@SomeoneElse) [Tweet], there's just going to be 'Someone' [Tweet] and then a list of everyone that's retweeted the message under it? (I think I'm barely making sense myself). Putting aside for the moment that my example might be confusing, what's MORE confusing is that when the RT shows up, it's going to look like it came from someone else other than me; I mean, my userpic will still show, but someone else's username will be there?

And if people stick to typing RT @Someone, will it automatically convert it into the new format, or are they just going to let it alone?

I think it's time for some caffeine, yes? Either way, I'm going to miss you @ sign. D:

Re: Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?

Alexander Bickov — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:52:04 -0000

Great post

Re: Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?

Kathy Gill — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:13:32 -0000

This is fairly easy to do with TweetDeck groups.

Re: Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?

Kathy Gill — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:06:46 -0000

Hi, Cullen, you've just described how I RT with TweetDeck. I don't use the web interface, so I don't have to copy-and-paste. Implementing a "click to RT" feature on the web interface is separate from the other (more complex) portions of this announcement. I'm pretty sure no one is complaining about having a "one click" RT from the web.

Re: Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?

miataylor — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:59:08 -0000

Interested to see how this all pans out!

Re: Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?

Lawrence Wang — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:14:26 -0000

Sure. It makes sense. With the new homepage, Twitter's repositioning itself as the place to go to find out about important news & trends. So they're formalizing the RT convention to use it in a voting algorithm. The more something gets RT'ed, the more "important" it must be.

Re: Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?

siamshopmarket — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:19:04 -0000

Re: Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?

annaomgz — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:03:37 -0000

Because "copy/paste" is SOOO 2008. Just keep it the way it is. If twitter on the Web changes, will that mess with everyone's phone apps as well?

Re: Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?

Stephen Robinson — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:32:23 -0000

Don't like it, can't add comments like you said. I won't use it if it becomes this,I'll still use RT:

Re: Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?

colinfitz — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:07:17 -0000

The best thing Twitter could do is create a Favorite Followers filter in the sidebar. I have about 1500 followers but I really only want to timeline 1% of my followers. I'm in the process of unfollowing all but my favorite 1%. Also I retweet to add a comment- without that what good is it except for the lame attempt to get more followers and Google juice?

Re: Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?

anatoly — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:34:25 -0000

I implemented and launched the exact same idea exactly 1 month ago (see retweet/reply screenshot):

http://blogs.x2line.com/al/...

on my twitter client (fosimo.tr).

Re: Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?

what — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:16:02 -0000

there's a 'conversation' thing in twitter search

Re: Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?

josephgelb — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:15:26 -0000

I like where Twitter is going with this.

Re: Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?

Jojanneke v.d. Bosch — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:55:24 -0000

Hi,

Good covering on this issue. I'm curious about the length of the retweets. Sometimes I
have to shorten someone's sentence in order to write 'RT @username' (and maybe a short
conment) in my retweet. This has to fit in 140 characters. I always shorten it in a
respectful way (for example changing 'one' into '1' or changing 'indeed' into 'idd').
Will the integrated RT service shorten the original writer's tweet in a less respectful
way (i.e. just chopping text off after the 140th characters)? Those services that allow
you to use 140+ characters are not so, well, populair with me and my tweeps.

Thanks! :-)
Regards,

@jojanneke

Re: Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?

geezi — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:48:17 -0000

What happens to the comments I add before retweeting something? Sometimes its only relevant to my followers with that comment attached..!

Re: Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?

Cullen Henshaw — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:38:31 -0000

"They're making things more complicated than they need to be. RTs are fine the way they are."

With respect, but the new RT will be 1) Hover over Tweet. 2) Click "Retweet". 3) Confirm. Compare that to the original (and current) way of RTing 1) Copy Tweet. 2) Type "RT @username" Paste Tweet.

Let's face it if Twitter had built this new system from the start and then suggested removing it and replacing it with the current way of doing things the resulting mashable article would have way more comments than this one and all of them would be negative.

Re: Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?

Glenn Gillen — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:35:50 -0000

I think the new benefits from this approach are great, but not at the expense of the features your mention (adding commentary and losing clear visibility on who retweeted).

Re: Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?

themashazine — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:17:41 -0000

makes sense. RTing now is sometimes quite painful

Re: Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?

Bujio — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:52:34 -0000

I do NOT want the new Retweet format. :(

Re: Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?

Kathy Gill — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:20:47 -0000

Re: Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?

Kathy Gill — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:19:50 -0000

Very good point, ChrisDavid42. Related to ilishe's point that the person who RTs is important to most folks, not the original author.