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hm, I see I have some new retweeting beta functionality :http://blog.twitter.com/2009/11/retweet-limited-rollout.html 17 hours ago |
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@JanKestenberg it's a new twitter feature. http://blog.twitter.com/2009/11/retweet-limited-rollout.html It lets you see more tweeple, too. 46 hours ago |
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More on retweets... http://blog.twitter.com/2009/11/retweet-limited-rollout.html 2 days ago |
BREAKING: Rollout of Twitter Retweet Feature Has Begun
Mashable! —
Twitter has just begun the rollout of Project Retweet, Twitter’s official integration of the retweet. Retweeting is when a user reshares interesting tweets from his or her friends using the RT syntax (e.g. “RT @mashable”).
According to Twitter, the rollout is occurring in phases, much like the Twitter Lists rollout. We will update this post with screenshots and an update on how it works momentarily. ...
New Twitter Retweets Take A Little Peek Around
TechCrunch —
... Twitter has just activated the retweet button a a small number of accounts, according to a blog post. The retweet button was originally ...
Twitter Rolling Out Retweets, Rolling Over Trends Spam
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim —
... Remember Twitter’s plans to make “retweeting” an official function?
Sure you do, the mock-ups looked like this:
Well, Twitter just announced the following:
We’ve just activated a feature called retweet on a very small percentage of accounts in order to see how it works in the wild. Retweet is a button that makes forwarding a particularly interesting tweet to all your followers very easy. In turn, we hope interesting, newsworthy, or even just plain funny information will spread quickly through the ...
Twitter Begins Rolling Out its Own Retweet Feature
WebProNews Feed —
... "You may remember that we shared the mechanics of this feature with developers a while back so they could think about how to work it into Twitter apps," says Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone on the company blog. "Now we're ready to start trying it on Twitter. The plan is to see how it goes first with this small release. If it needs more work, then we'll know right away. If things look good, we'll proceed with releasing the feature in stages eventually arriving at 100%." ...
Follow Friday: iPhone Twitter Lists and “New Style” RetweetsEdition
The iPhone Blog —
... New-style retweets is more controversial and potentially confusing. As Twitter rolls these out, when someone you follow retweets something, you no longer see them and their retweet, but the original tweeter, (even if you don’t follow them), along with a note saying which of the people you followed retweeted it. Again, it’s supposed to help with discovery, but it’s already driven Justine Batement into curse-riddled outrage, and depending on how it’s implemented on the web and in clients, could jut be a bad of Twitter hurt. ( ...
Twitter Testing Out Retweet Button
AppScout —
... Twitter is readying the roll out of yet another user-inspired feature. Site co-founder Biz Stone yesterday announced the forthcoming release of a Retweet button, which makes it easier for users to repost a tweet they find worthy of further dissemination. ...
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Twitter Implementing Retweets On A Small Scale
WebProNews Feed —
Remember Twitter’s plans to make “retweeting” an official function?
Sure you do, the mock-ups looked like this:
Well, Twitter just announced the following:
We’ve just activated a feature called retweet on a very small percentage of accounts in order to see how it works in the wild. Retweet is a button that makes forwarding a particularly interesting tweet to all your followers very easy. In turn, we hope interesting, newsworthy, or even just plain funny information will spread quickly through the ...
Integrated retweet on its way to Twitter
Webware.com —
Retweeting has become such an important part of Twitter use that the social network announced on its blog late Thursday that its rollout of integrated retweeting has finally begun. "We've just activated a feature called retweet on a very small percentage of accounts in order to see how it works in the wild," Twitter co-founder Biz Stone wrote on the blog. "Retweet is a button that makes forwarding a particularly interesting tweet to all your followers very easy. In turn, we hope interesting, newsworthy, or even just plain funny information will spread quickly through the ...
Twitter Rolls Out ReTweet Feature
901am —
... Twitter is testing out a new way of ”ReTweeting” to selected beta users. Here’s how the Twitter blog explains this “new feature.” ...
Are RT’s on Twitter about to lose their relevancy?
Josh Chandler —
... You may have assumed I was finished at that point of the post. But, the reason I titled this post “Are RT’s about to lose their relevancy” is that I am wondering how the future of RT’ing via the new “RT look and feel” will really play out. ...
Did Twitter Pluck a Data Management Guru from Yahoo!?
louisgray.com —
... and retweets. But the microblogging giant looks like it is taking extra steps to harness the power of its rapidly-expanding data set. ...
Twitter Plucks Data Management Guru from Yahoo!
louisgray.com —
... and retweets. But the microblogging giant looks like it is taking extra steps to harness the power of its rapidly-expanding data set. ...
Breakfast briefing: a closer look at Eldy, retweet or not, iPhones and HP+3Com=?
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... who have never used a computer - many of the people Martha Lane Fox is aiming at with the Digital Inclusion Task Force. Wouldn't it be neat if they all ended up on Linux? Certainly Eldy looks very interesting (aside from the Simplicity angle). I have an elderly relative who I think might benefit from its interface. • Apple plans to develop a version of the iPhone that will work anywhere in the world. That would be useful, surely. • Twitter is rolling out a retweet feature, but not everyone's impressed, because it doesn't let you ...
Twitter's new retweets stumble, but they're still coming (and it's good)
Download Squad —
... There's been a flurry of news and views surrounding Twitter's retweet feature as it rolls out to more users this week. To sum up, limited introduction of the new feature was announced, then it was halted to fix some bugs, and now it's back on again. No big ...
Twitter Puts Retweet Roll-Out on Hold
WebProNews Feed —
... "You may remember that we shared the mechanics of this feature with developers a while back so they could think about how to work it into Twitter apps," says Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone on the company blog. "Now we're ready to start trying it on Twitter. The plan is to see how it goes first with this small release. If it needs more work, then we'll know right away. If things look good, we'll proceed with releasing the feature in stages eventually arriving at 100%." ...
Twitter Sticks With New Retweet Format, Despite Complaints
Switched —
... , for sharing and for organizing the people you're following. Now, the micro-blogging service is rolling out a standardized format for retweets. While the location data is usually out of the average user's view, the new format for retweets is an obvious change to Twitter's basic interface. And, as Facebook users do ...
Twittelator Pro Announces Official Geotagging Support, Tweetie On The Way
iPhone Alley - RSS —
... that it has enabled geotagging support for third-party Twitter clients, just two weeks after they began rolling out the new retweet feature . Following the announcement from Twitter, Stone Design announced that Twittelator Pro [ ...
