Twitter Re-Tweets
As many of you may have heard, Twitter are currently testing some new functionality in beta called Re-tweets. What’s new about that I hear you cry, Re-tweets or RT’s have been about for ages?
Well yes and no. While many clients have automated the re-tweeting of existing tweets, this is not something that Twitter itself has supported and users of the web interface have been required to cut and paste to manually create the posts.
I am fortunate enough to be part of that beta release, so thought you may like to hear and see how Twitter’s implementation works. Below is the explanation that Twitter provides:
There are two main differences. Firstly you still see the author of the original post and not the author of the re-tweet as you do currently.
Secondly, while you will still only see re-tweets from people you follow, they have included a count of how many other people have also re-tweeted the same post. This is quite useful in quickly gauging the popularity of the tweet.
Not drastic changes but useful ones and expect to see third party twitter clients falling into line and supporting this functionality in the very near future.
