Tag: RETWEET

If you've ever used Facebook or Twitter, you're already familiar with Google Buzz's latest feature: reshare. Resharing is the equivalent of sharing in Facebook or retweeting in Twitter. It quickly shares someone else's post in your stream, with your commentary added and a link back to the original source. It's not so much that reshare is a cool new feature, just Google playing the inevitable ...

"Retweeting" -- reposting someone else's content on your own account -- is so popular on Twitter that there was a huge user debate about how the site should handle official support for it. Facebook seems to have taken notice, introducing its own retweet-like "via" feature, which allows you to post other people's shared items in your own activity stream (automatically attributed to the original ...

Tweetdeck's latest update brings support for Twitter's most recent new features, including lists and geotagging. In fact, if you're gaga over Twitter lists, I'd venture to say that Tweetdeck is probably the client for you. Tweetdeck's groups feature, which has been one of its biggest selling points since it started, has been rolled into lists. Your old groups will still be there, but new groups ...

The much-anticipated Twitter client Tweetie 2.1 has finally arrived on the iPhone. It's the first major update to Tweetie 2, and it features support for Lists, Geotagging and native retweets. One of the most-anticipated changes is the way the app displays retweets, with a small version of the retweeter's icon inset on the original poster's. The "quote tweet" option is still available, so if ...

Are you one of the many, many people who seem to be up in arms about Twitter's implementation of retweets? A neat little Greasemonkey script called Retweet Avatars might go a long way toward making you feel better about the new system. Instead of showing the original poster's icon, it shows your retweeting friend's icon, with a much smaller inset for the original tweeter. This two-icon system ...

There's been a flurry of news and views surrounding Twitter's retweet feature as it rolls out to more users this week. To sum up, limited introduction of the new feature was announced, then it was halted to fix some bugs, and now it's back on again. No big deal, but the user reaction to the new retweets has been so enormous and so polarized that Twitter founder Ev Williams saw fit to write a rare ...

It hasn't been long since we told you about Twitter's "Project Retweet," the plan to introduce a standard, system-wide format for rebroadcasting other users' Twitter postings. The new retweets seem to have already rolled out for certain power users. Although you might not see them on the web, they're already showing up in some third-party Twitter clients. Until the new retweets are available to ...

If you've been on Twitter since the beginning, you know that @replies weren't always supported the way they are now. The @username convention started from the ground up, with Twitter's users, and the functionality was coded afterward. Now, the same thing is happening with retweets, according to a blog post by Twitter's Biz Stone. Although the design hasn't been finalized, "Project Retweet" looks ...