Twitter Finally Tells Us Exactly How Many Retweets We Got

If you’re a longtime Twitter user, this news will probably make your week: Twitter has ditched the “50+” notification when a tweet reaches more than 50 retweets and is actually showing us the real number of retweets it got. It’s about time!

Previous to this weekend’s update, popular tweets were perpetually stuck at “50+” retweets. Twitter wouldn’t display the actual number, but would instead cap it at 50 (although they obviously had access to the number behind the scenes).

This made it difficult for at-a-glance assessments of how well a tweet performed.

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