Twitter's Latest Experiment: Retweet With Comment

Twitter's Latest Experiment: Retweet With Comment

By its own admission Twitter experiments with at least one new feature each and every day, and while most of these are simply that – experiments – some do move out of the beta process and become system-wide.

Twitter’s latest venture is a tweak that many users have wanted for a long, long time: retweets with comments.

First spotted by Mashable, the change has been showing up for the usual small subset of users on the official iPhone and Android apps – now, when they go to retweet, instead of seeing the standard “Quote tweet” secondary option they’re seeing “Retweet with comment”.

Twitter's Latest Experiment: Retweet With Comment

Once actioned, here’s how the retweet with comment looks, courtesy of Twitter’s own Carolyn Penner.

Twitter's Latest Experiment: Retweet With Comment

What’s important here is that while a quote tweet gives you a very small space to add your own thoughts (because you’re limited by how many characters you’re quoting), retweet with comment effectively gives you 140 extra...

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