Comments on: Twitter Friday: Do the New Retweets Suck? How to Fix Them?

By: Vishnu

Vishnu — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:04:36 +0000

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The Twitter Retweet Wars: The Empire Strikes Back | SEOptimise — Sat, 22 May 2010 19:32:36 +0000

[...] about a new development in the Twitter retweet wars. In the first episode we have seen a massive rebellion against the new retweet functionality introduced by Twitter itself. A huge wave of resistance has forced Twitter and most [...]

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:01:55 +0000

Does anyone know of a third-party, free analytics tool that recognizes the new retweet feature?

By: lightrimed (Lark Ascending)

lightrimed (Lark Ascending) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:14:36 +0000

@twitter Pls fix retweeting as per http://www.seoptimise.com/blog/2009/11/twitter-friday-do-the-new-retweets-suck-how-to-fix-them.html

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:30:04 +0000

I’ve created a Greasemonkey script for Firefox/Safari that converts new style RTs to old style ones :-) It’s restored my sanity! See http://bit.ly/oldRTs

By: Michael Guthrie

Michael Guthrie — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:26:32 +0000

I really loathe seeing strangers in my time line. It’s enough for me to stop using twitter I must say.

By: Cathy dunham

Cathy dunham — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:26:48 +0000

I agree with Sherry – I would love to easily add my 2 cents when retweeting. Otherwise, I have to “resend” it by retyping… and am just hoping the original sender gets credit for the RT.

By: Ray Beckerman

Ray Beckerman — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:37:22 +0000

I think the powers at Twitter had very specific, deliberate, money-driven reasons for designing this feature the way they did, and they have no intention of accepting good ideas like yours which will cut against the grain of whatever their scheme is.

It is noteworthy that they did not consult with their customers before coming up with their “beta”, and their “beta” isn’t a true beta at all, since they are not soliciting, and are not interested in, user input.

I am one of the most prolific non-robotic retweeters on Twitter, and am usually in the top 50 of those being retweeted by others, and they’ve never talked to me, and I do not know anyone else with whom they spoke prior to implementing this foolish imitation of a retweet.

A business which thinks it knows more than its customers is one on the road to failure.

My recommendations on how we should proceed are here: http://is.gd/4YRfB

By: susie

susie — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:41:02 +0000

I think both types of retweet, the traditional and the new, have their place and I am using both now.

By: Sherry

Sherry — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:47:22 +0000

I would like to be able to add comments to and edit tweets before retweeting.

By: Matt Perez

Matt Perez — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:37:52 +0000

They suck. Plain and simple. For all the reasons listed in this post and even more so because Twitter is too late to the RT bandwagon. If they had jumped in earlier and *lead*, it might have been a different story. As it is, they are flaunting the existing conventions and reinventing this particular wheel instead of adding value. I don’t even see what’s in it for them by doing it this way.

By: Alexa

Alexa — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:33:23 +0000

I like the new retweet feature. As a new user, it makes it easier for me to recognize the distinction (as opposed to a ‘RT’). All of the RTs, #s, or @s really throw me. It’s much cleaner/aesthetically pleasing.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:33:17 +0000

I like it, I really do, i aint bothered about seeing strangers in my timeline – it actually opens up the chances of following some really interesting people, I struggle to understand what is complex about it as some people have shouted – it can reduce tweet jacking and also it stops the bandwagon of chinese whispers Rt’s

Also from a search perspective suddenly the title of the retweet used with the new functionality has all that RT @ stripped from the Title – more chance of being seeded in the search engines.

I might be in a group of 1 considering the search communities dislike towards it but I am only stressing my opinion and frankly for me it is a massive step forward on how information is shared on Twitter. My tuppence worth.

By: donna stephenson

donna stephenson — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:52:01 +0000

i agree w/u. Fyi rt option doesn’t work on my phone browser mini opera 4.02 thank you for all the info you give