Comments on: New ReTweet Makes Sense in the Context of Lists http://jaredstauffer.com/?p=26 business, technology, family and faith Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:13:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jared http://jaredstauffer.com/?p=26&cpage=1#comment-4 Jared Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:56:01 +0000 http://stauffer.me/?p=26#comment-4 I agree that it takes away being able to add an opinion and this really sucks. I have some new thoughts on retweets that I will be sharing early next week in a new blog post, stay tuned. :) I agree that it takes away being able to add an opinion and this really sucks. I have some new thoughts on retweets that I will be sharing early next week in a new blog post, stay tuned. :)

]]> By: Andrew Mueller http://jaredstauffer.com/?p=26&cpage=1#comment-3 Andrew Mueller Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:17:39 +0000 http://stauffer.me/?p=26#comment-3 Hi Jared, interesting viewpoint about how the native twitter RT feature makes sense in view of lists. I think seeing people that I don't follow in my timeline is insignificant and irrelevant. What i want to know is why lists will work better if people use the native feature rather than the old method? I would like to add a bit about citation, 52% of all RT's contain links, it is the link and a descriptor of the link that is being shared and re-shared. Upon closer examination what is really being shared is content that the link points to and that is what needs to remain intact, which of course it does. Often the copy is secondary to the link, and we aren't citing anything rather simply sharing a link, sometimes with a opinion attached. The new feature kills this link economy. It does not allow us to attach our thoughts. I suspect that rt evolved to be such a big part of twitter because we like to voice our opinions or be credited for curating information. RT's are conversational and the native feature is not. Thanks for the thoughts, Andrew Hi Jared,

interesting viewpoint about how the native twitter RT feature makes sense in view of lists. I think seeing people that I don’t follow in my timeline is insignificant and irrelevant. What i want to know is why lists will work better if people use the native feature rather than the old method?

I would like to add a bit about citation, 52% of all RT’s contain links, it is the link and a descriptor of the link that is being shared and re-shared. Upon closer examination what is really being shared is content that the link points to and that is what needs to remain intact, which of course it does.

Often the copy is secondary to the link, and we aren’t citing anything rather simply sharing a link, sometimes with a opinion attached. The new feature kills this link economy. It does not allow us to attach our thoughts. I suspect that rt evolved to be such a big part of twitter because we like to voice our opinions or be credited for curating information. RT’s are conversational and the native feature is not.

Thanks for the thoughts,

Andrew

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