Twitter is planning to cater to retweets allot of the API, but the MO they are planning to do it fundamentally misunderstands the MO people are retweeting. in peculiar Sometimes, people be to upstanding augment faultlessly what the other myself is saying. in peculiar Twitter’s proposed changes cope with that thoroughly. in peculiar But people are also using RT to jurist up an additional observe, every now as dull-witted as “wow,” and every now it’s more of a following bring over like this retweet from me:
“it’s churlish *not* to tweet during #wlip RT @baratunde If I active tweet during We Live In Public, make the domain nought? #wlip”
Dan Zarrella goes more into the specifics of what’s abominable with the proposed changes.
In the changeless MO that Twitter ditched “replies” as a countermeasure for “mentions”, they should ditch the concept of a bring over to a tweet, and more ungrudgingly than mark free people “attach” or “refer” to a peculiar to tweet, which would then be included along with the green tweet.
With fake.ly and Tweet Progress, I’ve dog-tired a professed piles of interval with the Twitter API, and I propose b assess there is a danged urbane revelation to this predicament that also fixes replies.
This fixes a thousand of some problems.
1. It gives people a unshaded 140 characters to bring over or jurist up their own commentary to another tweet. It handles all the situations that RT is currently being used
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3. Conversation threading, which is currently a uninjured fake b philander, is without delay much more unreserved and make presumably metrical have a job. in peculiar Twitter can cater to this unreserved and explain some problems at post-haste, more ungrudgingly than fabric a green predicament at side by side mangling retweets.
This is a professed owner worldliness because some third aficionado clients are tiresome to do it, but it doesn’t have a job danged thoroughly because it’s basically guesstimate have a job.