Comments on: Retweeting – Another Twitter Misadoption?

By: uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:25:12 +0000

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By: Mike Zavarello

Mike Zavarello — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:59:26 +0000

I was looking forward to reading this article. Regarding the origins of retweeting, et al, you pretty much laid out the same set of (accurate) observations as Wired did in its article (“Mob Rule! How Users Took Over Twitter” – http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_twitter/). I agree with you that finding out who’s retweeted you is a bit laborious, but there are two points I’d like to elaborate on: 1) first, the way RTs are now posted in your timeline is somewhat helpful but also disconcerting… b/c you’re suddenly seeing the avatars of the quoted posters vs. those of the retweeter, it makes it harder to follow who said what. I know you can turn this behavior off, but it has to be done on a person-to-person basis. 2) Users can always still RT the “old-fashioned” way… I do this when I do want to share something and add my own comments.

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By: RFRube

RFRube — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:49:31 +0000

The New Twitter re-tweet feature is a pro/con for me. If I used Twitter purely to exchange information, I can understand the value in clicking a simple re-tweet button and having that information appearing in a followers stream.

However I am not on Twitter purely to exchange information. I am on Twitter to exchange information that has my own unique personality and input attached to it. Therefore when I am passing information in a re-tweet, I prefer the option of being able to add my own comment (regardless of however brief) to the re-tweet I am sending to a follower.

I always like to keep in mind that the people who follow me are following me, not the people I may be re-tweeting (hopefully) because I have something unique to offer them.

I think the more Twitter automates the exchange of information, the more it loses what attracted me to the service in the first place, and that is the exchange of ideas among people on a person to person basis.

Good post as always Jon.