Comments on: Twitter’s new retweet feature is dumb and (mostly) useless

By: C.K. Sample III

C.K. Sample III — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:58:22 +0000

Actually more people use the site than any clients. TweetDeck is the next closest competitor to the site itself.

By: mike2k

mike2k — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:40:59 +0000

This stupid butchering of the retweet feature was implemented only so retweets can be tracked. Now everyone gets to look at how many times they were retweeted and brag about it.

By: Damien Franco

Damien Franco — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:23:01 +0000

I think there is value for people that use Twitter.com but don’t most of us use twitter clients that have better ways to do RTs? I don’t think you can even edit your ReTweet from the Twitter website. I can do that with Seismic or Tweetdeck.

So I guess it’s mostly a non-issue for me.

By: C.K. Sample III

C.K. Sample III — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:05:14 +0000

Yeah I see that now. I don’t think it did when I took the original screenshot. However, it’s still small and makes it easy to overlook when skimming through tweets.

By: Navarr

Navarr — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:57:48 +0000

I don’t know about you, but mine shows the people that retweeted posts.

Either way, I think they talked briefly about adding your own comments to retweets, and they stated somewhere along the lines that they hadn’t found a proper way to implement it, or whatever.

Either way, I like this new feature. It makes it much easier to discover users whose interests are similar to my own.