Twitter finally rolls out Retweet feature
According to Twitter Blog:
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.
Yes, finally Twitter decided to roll out this long-waited feature, a feature that should have been around since day 1. I am just fortunate that one of my twitter account @windows7hacker was selected as one of these beta tester, so I was able to see what this feature looks like and how it works and integrates in my twitter page.
First, this notification box appeared in my twitter page, right above the recent tweets from my following twitters.
And then a Retweet button also shows up in each tweets, right next to Reply. If you want to retweet a tweet, simply click it and confirm from the popup box.
Then, the Retweeted tweet will be easily spotted with a Retweet icon. Yes, you can even undo your Retweeted tweed right in the same place.
Unfortunately, I can’t do RT from a search page or saved search page. It would be nice if they do. Hoping they will fix it in the final version.
I also noticed another small feature that they added in this beta version. It shows how many new tweets that have been posted but haven’t been checked since last time I refreshed the page. They even put the number on to the page title so it gets showed on browser tab. Quite nice.
RT (Retweet) is not invented by Twitter, but by people who use Twitter. It’s a creative ways to get good stuff spread out quickly through the network. It’s so efficient and useful and has been used by almost every tweeter. I am glad Twitter finally made the move and started testing it out, even though it’s still in an early phase. It’s going to be a big improvement once it’s officially released.
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