Those who are part of the test get the following message:
Hi there, you're part of a beta group receiving this feature, which means you may start seeing retweets in a new way. People who don't have this yet will see your retweets prefaced by "RT".
Update 2: Twitter
Update: There is an interesting post announced that it intended to add a retweet option to its service and the API. Twitter is now rolling out the feature to a small percentage of Twitter users.
"You may remember that we shared the mechanics of this feature with developers a while back so they could think about how to work it into Twitter apps,"
If you are a regular Twitter user, it's pretty much a given that you know what retweeting is, but Stone describes what the button does to those in the dark. "Retweet is a button that makes forwarding a particularly interesting tweet to all your followers very easy," he says. "In turn, we hope interesting, newsworthy, or even just plain funny information will spread quickly through the network making its way efficiently to the people who want or need to know."
The Impact of Retweets
Retweets have already been a great way for content and updates to go viral. Now as the actual feature rolls out, that should only increase. Read Twittercism, came up with a helpful equation for maximizing retweet potential. We talked about that
Tweaking Twitter Trends
In another piece of Twitter-related news, the company also announced that it is experimenting with improvements to trends that will help users find more relevant tweets. They An Equation for Getting More Traffic from Twitter > More to Retweeting Than Meets the Eye for Businesses?
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