Retweet Limited Rollout : Official Retweet (in Beta) by Twitter

November 7th, 2009

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The most popular feature of Twitter is interestingly something that was not invented by Twitter. We are talking about the RT – or the “Retweet” – option. We do not know how exactly the Retweet function started, but we surely know that it got Twitter interested. Twitter has been working on the Retweet function (of its own) for a long time now, and has finally made it live – at least in beta form.

Twitter has launched a limited edition of the official Retweet feature. This is available to (more…)

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Twitter officialy including Retweet as a feature

September 21st, 2009

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Looking at the popularity of RT or retweet, twitter has decided to include it as a feature on the microblogging platform. The plan to officially accept retweet has been named as project retweet.

Twitter also released a pic (above) which shows how the retweet feature would look on the microblogging platform. The retweet would show the people who have retweeted a tweet along with their thumbnails under the retweet.

Popularity of retweets is not the only reason for twitter to include it as a feature. Making retweet a function would also reduce confusion to the people new to tweeter.

BTW for the ones who do not know, retweet or RT is (more…)

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