Comments on: The New Twitter Retweet

By: dragonblogger

dragonblogger — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:16:35 +0000

Though you can’t add your own comments, you can find out who retweeted you by looking at your own twitter stream, it will show you if your tweets have been retweeted and show who retweeted it so you can thank them. But I do agree with adding your own message being valuable, sometimes its hard to do without chopping original tweet though.

By: ileane

ileane — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:33:35 +0000

Hi Dragonblogger,
The Twitter retweet function has it’s down side. You can’t alter the tweet at all, you don’t even get a chance to review it before you retweet. For example, if someone tweets one of my posts, I like to retweet them and add a “thanks” at the end. Or if I tweet someone else’s web link, I might want to add a comment like “Good read”. I am hoping that Twitter apps such as HootSuite will not conform to this new system.

I like to keep the option of using both versions of retweeting the old and the new.

Thanks for the post!
@Ileane
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By: Extreme John

Extreme John — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:04:07 +0000

It’s nice to see Twitter finally adding this functionality.

It looks like Twitter might be learning from all of the third party apps out there like Seesmic. I currently use Seesmic because I like the columns and Facebook integration.
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By: Zorlone

Zorlone — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:49:08 +0000

I think this retweet functionality on the twitter site is cool and it offers a different alternative to the millions of users.

The downsite of it is when I want to retweet and to personalize the message, of course, that is something I can’t do anymore since the RT takes care of sending the tweet to the followers.

Regardless, I still liked it.

BTW, thank you for the superstar status bro! You rock!!!

Z
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By: Heather Kephart

Heather Kephart — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:36:45 +0000

Thanks for explaining it to us. I was thinking they meant that only people who follow the person you rt’d would see the message and obviously that’s no good. I’ve been using the feature and like it. I do see the benefit in preserving the original tweet, but I do miss being able to add my own little message after the RT to let people know why I RTed it, etc.
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