Comments on: Twitter’s new retweet feature: more good than bad? http://www.mulvenna.org/retweet/ Gerry Mulvenna, Singer Songwriter and IT Support Specialist Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:45:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: gerry http://www.mulvenna.org/retweet/comment-page-1/#comment-4013 gerry Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:12:00 +0000 http://www.mulvenna.org/?p=519#comment-4013 Thanks Donal - I read Sean Bonner's post with interest and an ever open mind. His big complaints are the strangers' avatars and compromising the existing RT functionality in clients. The avatar thing can be easily sorted I would hope, but it's down to the developers and users how things go with accommodating both types of retweets in clients. Time will tell - it certainly could go pear-shaped in many different directions. Thanks Donal – I read Sean Bonner’s post with interest and an ever open mind. His big complaints are the strangers’ avatars and compromising the existing RT functionality in clients. The avatar thing can be easily sorted I would hope, but it’s down to the developers and users how things go with accommodating both types of retweets in clients. Time will tell – it certainly could go pear-shaped in many different directions.

]]> By: Donal Murphy http://www.mulvenna.org/retweet/comment-page-1/#comment-4011 Donal Murphy Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:39:10 +0000 http://www.mulvenna.org/?p=519#comment-4011 Good points all Gerry. I think that the duplication issue is a double edged sword. Before, if I missed a popular RT by a follower I could be pretty sure to pick it up again further down the twitter stream by someone else. Now, I will never see it again. It's lost in the crowd. I read Evan's article and I recommend Sean Bonner's <a href="http://blog.seanbonner.com/2009/11/11/twitters-new-retweet-feature/" rel="nofollow">response</a> which covers some of your concerns and examines the duplication issue. Good points all Gerry.

I think that the duplication issue is a double edged sword. Before, if I missed a popular RT by a follower I could be pretty sure to pick it up again further down the twitter stream by someone else. Now, I will never see it again. It’s lost in the crowd.

I read Evan’s article and I recommend Sean Bonner’s response which covers some of your concerns and examines the duplication issue.

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