Retweet RT which is invented by users of twitter to share others tweets by copying them and placing RT in front with @mention followed by text. This is the way till now tweets are distributed over twitter. Twitter want to add retweet to their micro blogging platform and they tested, rolling out this feature to all twitter users.
All twitter users will soon have this retweet feature available, meanwhile if you are one of those who got retweet feature, twitter shows like in below picture in your twitter page. I have a chance to taste twitter’s new retweet today, I tested it by following twitter designer Zhana(she has already that retweet feature).
Retweet button added to twitter
Now as this retweet feature being rolled out to all users which is still in beta, you will observe every tweet will have retweet button beside reply when you hover mouse. So this gives the option for users to retweet without using RT procedure, as we are all doing till now.
What’s new in Twitter’s retweet feature
This may take a while for twitter users to understand how retweet works in twitter. If you are following some users and if you retweet any of their tweet, their tweet will be send to all your followers. Below that retweet you will observe Retweeted by your name and others . Also in this retweet if any people you follow will appear with their names if they also retweet the same tweet .
While retweeting a tweet, twitter asks to confirm whether you want to “Retweet to your followers “ as well. You can confirm by clicking “Yes” will send that tweet to all your followers.
How users can turnoff retweets
Now if you are irritated with too many retweets spoiling your timeline, from now on you can turnoff others retweets. This is where information distribution over twitter will fall. Just open the guys profile you are following, and click and double click the green arrow button twitter will show the confirmation retweets from this user will not appear in your timeline.
Deleting a Retweet from followers timeline
If you felt that you retweeted unwillingly and you don’t want that retweet to stay in timeline of your followers. Just click “undo” button on that retweet, which will delete the retweet from all your followers.
Turn off retweets while you follow someone
Reminding you that, from now on whenever you follow any user, twitter shows the message “ retweets from this user will appear in your timeline “. So the user has the option to stop retweets of people whom they follow at that moment.
The idea behind twitter retweet feature is to reduce noisy. That noise can be reduced by turning off retweets from the users you don’t like. lated articles
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Hmm. Pretty interesting features. People I follow don't retweet much so I'll have no use for turning off RTs.
Quote: "While retweeting a tweet, twitter asks to confirm whether you want to retweet this to your followers as well."
Who else I'd be retweeting if not to my followers? :)
Valuable post once again!
@Anne
Thanks for your comment , since this feature in early stage i.e in beta twitter asks to confirm you to retweet to your followers. There is another reason your followers timeline will be filled with others tweets whom they are not following.
Seriously! I have been browsing bing all night for this and that i ultimately think it is listed here!
I personally dont want ANY retweets to show up in my feed. Is there a wayto turn tem off globally?