Twitter Faceoff: Old Versus New Style Retweets

Courtesy Mashable!  Mon, 12/21/2009 - 21:00

We thought we’d try something a little bit different for this week’s edition of our Web Faceoff series.

Last week we saw Digg beat out Reddit and StumbleUpon for social news champion, and this week we’re throwing out a timely but more provincial battle: Twitter’s new official retweet feature versus the “old school” method of text-based “RT-ing.”

Since it was first announced back in August , reactions were mixed over...


 

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