Project Retweet: Why It Will Change Twitter for the Better

Courtesy Mashable!  Sun, 09/20/2009 - 09:05

One month ago, Twitter announced Project Retweet , Twitter’s plan to officially support the popular act of retweeting as a feature.

Currently, users reshare interesting tweets using the RT syntax (e.g. “RT @mashable “).

What Twitter intends to do is formalize the process by making retweets a core feature and displaying retweeters underneath the original Tweet.

The upcoming change has sparked a heated debate. Some, like Mashable guest writer Dan Zarrella , are...


 

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