When I first saw a retweeted message in my Twitter stream, I thought spammers got on my follow list. Even though I was aware of Project Retweet, and knew what to anticipate, the actual implementation was still disturbing. Who is this person and why is he here, I ask myself. When I try to click on the ReTweet button which I now have on my web interface, it merely asks me if I wish to retweet this to my followers.
What? No editing? One of the most fun ways of contextualizing and sharing a conversation is to RT a short message, and append something, separated by double slashes, a pipe character, or a pseudo-arrow. The retweet button does not allow any of that. That one can suppress retweets from a user is of little solace, as, given the large number of people some follow, managing RT-bans would be a pain in and of itself.
The stats reporting on how many people have RTed the same message? Pure ego stroking and little more. While yes, Virginia, no one is requiring us to RT this way, we expected better.
Apparently, I’m not the only one who thinks this way.
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