Cleaner Retweets on Twitter Mean Less Recognition
August 13th, 2009 Posted in Industry News, Twitter
A post by Twitter’s blog revealed Twitter’s new method for displaying Retweets on their user interface. The new method displays a link below the Tweet indicating the username of the person who Retweeted the Tweet. (say that 10 times fast). This will obviously cleanup Twitter’s UI, but comes with the cost of receiving less Recongition for posts that are retweeted.
Here is a screenshot:
It will be interesting to see how the community responds to this, especially since the Twitter community established the RT standard initially. What do you think?
