17Aug

Twitters New Project Retweet

Posted by Steve Renner as Social Media, Twitter, Web 2.0

Twitter Introduces Project ReTweet. If you have been on Twitter for a while you know about Retweet. This is where you you see a post you like and want to share it with your followers. Now Twitter is making this officially part of their platform.

Twitter Introduces Project ReTweet

Twitter Blog Describes it this way:

Some of Twitter’s best features are emergent—people inventing simple but creative ways to share, discover, and communicate. One such convention is retweeting. When you want to call more attention to a particular tweet, you copy/paste it as your own, reference the original author with an @mention, and finally, indicate that it’s a retweet. The process works although it’s a bit cumbersome and not everyone knows about it.

Retweeting is a great example of Twitter teaching us what it wants to be. The open exchange of information can have a positive global impact and the more efficient dissemination of information across the entire Twitter ecosystem is something we very much want to support. That’s why we’re planning to formalize retweeting by officially adding it to our platform and Twitter.com.

Twitter’s Biz Stone says:

“Retweeting is a great example of Twitter teaching us what it wants to be. The open exchange of information can have a positive global impact and the more efficient dissemination of information across the entire Twitter ecosystem is something we very much want to support. That’s why we’re planning to formalize retweeting by officially adding it to our platform and Twitter.com”.

Fire Fox Twitter Plugin already has this function automated. They want to open the API up for developers to create ReTweet apps and make it a normal part of the system for everyone. I think this is a great idea!