ReTweeting 2.0: Why Retweet works the way it does – by @EV


ReTweeting 2.0: Why Retweet works the way it does – by @EV

I read this whole post. Ev (the guy who created blogger.com), who now works at Twitter, detailed the whole new local implementation of retweeting on twitter.com. It’s a really good read if you’re a twitter geek. I am looking forward to see how Tweetdeck and Tweetie (the two clients I use), integrate the new native RT features.

This week on Twitter, we’re rolling a feature we’ve been working on for a while out to a lot more users. (If you don’t have it yet, you will soon.) That feature is our native version of Retweet, which Biz posted about on the Twitter blog a couple months ago.

I’m making this post because I know the design of this feature will be somewhat controversial. People understandably have expectations of how the retweet function should work. And I want to show some of the thinking that’s gone into it. I’ve been a big proponent of this particular design internally at Twitter, because, while it won’t serve every use case, I think it offers something new and powerful.

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