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