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How To Use Twitter’s New Retweet Button…& What’s Wrong With It!
November 12, 2009
Those Twitter guys have been busy recently, hot on the heels of the recent Twitter Lists feature, we’ve now got a Twitter Retweet Button being rolled out. Ever since the user-led inception of retweeting (reposting other people’s tweets) on Twitter, there has been a call for a designated button to avoid the hassle of copy and pasting every time you wanted to share something interesting. Finally, that call has been answered, well, kind of.
A couple of days ago, Twitter started to roll out an automated retweet (RT) button across some accounts. It’s still in beta so you might not be able to see it yet, but tweeters who can have mixed feelings. One one hand, it does make the retweeting process a lot easier, on the other there are some disadvantages to it which I’ll discuss later. First here’s an overview.
Continue reading »How To Use Twitter Lists
October 26, 2009
One of the biggest complaints about Twitter has been the absence of groups which would allow tweeters to sort their followers into categories, making it easier to manage a large number. That’s about to change with the introduction of Lists. At the moment, Twitter Lists are only available to a small number of users, but they will become universal once the testing period is over. If you aren’t lucky enough to be getting a sneak preview, read on …
