Twitter Will Formally Incorporate Retweeting
August 31, 2009 by Stephen S Alison
Twitter Will Formally Incorporate Retweeting – Retweeting is a user-generated communication technique for reposting someone else’s message. It is similar to quoting. Currently, there is no set format for retweeting, which basically consists of reposting someone’s tweet and giving due credit.
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.
The most common scheme for a retweet involves prefacing the post with the letters “RT,” then the @ symbol, and the username of the person being quoted. The retweet rebroadcasts the information to a new set of followers, who see the retweet and have the option of retweeting themselves. In this way, ideas, links, and other information can be distributed–and tracked–fairly quickly.
Last week, Twitter announced that it will soon implement a button that will let users automatically repost someone else’s tweet.
When Will It Launch?
In a few weeks or so Twitter will launch the feature on their web site and because app developers had a chance to prepare, it should become available across most of the Twitter ecosystem about the same time. This way, we can all enjoy retweeting – however we choose to access Twitter.
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