Comments on: Twitter Plans to Mangle ReTweets #SaveReTweets

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By: fledgling’s archive, december 2009 « Makurrah's Blog

fledgling’s archive, december 2009 « Makurrah's Blog — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:37:26 +0000

[...] Twitter Plans to Mangle ReTweets #SaveReTweets (Dan Zarrella) [...]

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fledgling’s archive, november 2009 « Makurrah's Blog — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:36:36 +0000

[...] The original rant from Dan Zarella [...]

By: dontcry

dontcry — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:41:14 +0000

I have for a long time now said publicly that Twitter needs to concentrate on making the platform more stable.
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By: dontcry

dontcry — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:41:14 +0000

I have for a long time now said publicly that Twitter needs to concentrate on making the platform more stable.
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By: RT vs. Retweet - SxDSalon: A group blog on social interaction design

RT vs. Retweet - SxDSalon: A group blog on social interaction design — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:34:17 +0000

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By: Project Retweet: Why It Will Change Twitter for the Better

Project Retweet: Why It Will Change Twitter for the Better — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:03:15 +0000

[...] upcoming change has sparked a heated debate. Some, like Mashable guest writer Dan Zarrella, are heavily against it, while Twitter’s leadership and others believe it will improve the user [...]

By: catherine grison

catherine grison — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:12:59 +0000

I just totally agree. TOTALLY.

By: catherine grison

catherine grison — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:12:59 +0000

I just totally agree. TOTALLY.

By: catherine grison

catherine grison — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:12:59 +0000

I just totally agree. TOTALLY.

By: Ileane Smith

Ileane Smith — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:45:52 +0000

This artilce was posted 2 months ago, and by now I hope Twitter has changed their minds about doing this. If you have an update, please let me know.

Thanks.
@ileane

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:21:33 +0000

Can't you just continue using the old format if you want?

By: Name

Name — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:46:57 +0000

The fact that Twitter didn't have a formal way to retweet has always been lame. But I agree with Dan that to completely change the format now that the community has developed it's own standard in an open source way is even more lame.

I haven't heard anything to the contrary, but what is to stop us from doing it the way we've been doing it; either via another app or copy and pasting the tweet and adding "RT @username" and comments?

Eventually the brass may get the idea.

By: MikeHaydon

MikeHaydon — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:29:40 +0000

Solution – Twitter should focus more on targeting the problem (spam) rather than an outlet for the problem (RTs). Spammers will always find a way to spam. Making a concerted effort to combat spam is one of the main reasons Facebook has Myspace in a stranglehold, particularly among the non-teen demographic.

By: MikeHaydon

MikeHaydon — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:25:38 +0000

What are you saying? You DON'T like the fail whale? lol

By: MikeHaydon

MikeHaydon — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:24:53 +0000

Good analogy! If only more companies followed the Japanese car company model

By: MikeHaydon

MikeHaydon — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:23:28 +0000

Twitter should be spending its time on fixing things that are broken, like the amount of spam they spend their resources responding to rather than being proactive. It's a simple code fix to allow "one click" RTs in the form we know, use and love (I often comment on when I RT), as opposed to the more difficult task of changing the fabric of the site to do RTs the way they are proposing.

I'm not going to stop RTing the way I currently do. I hardly ever use the site anyway, Tweetdeck is much more efficient for me. With 22k followers, there's no way I can see even a fraction of my followers' tweets. I have a group of around 150 people I've built up a trust for and I listen to them. They often RT things that twitterers I don't know have said, which I won't see under the proposed system.

Twitter - keep the format the same. It works a lot better than what you propose will. Add a button to improve user experience, but don't mangle something that makes your site unique.

By: Eline Walda

Eline Walda — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:05:10 +0000

I don't think I will lie awake over this. Nevertheless, if it's true, then it would seem that Twitter doesn't understand a thing about Twitter…

Actually, I seldom RT without editing. I often add a comment of my own. I plan to keep on doing this, no matter what Twitter prescribes A RT from someone I don't know, without the clearly visible credentials of a person I do follow, is meaningless.