Twitter.com Gets Hovercards (finally) Twitter seems to be getting serious about making the Twitter.com interface more useful to users. Following the complete redesign they did a while back, addition of lists, and new retweet feature...

I used to be a HUGE fan of Tweetie until Tweetie 2. Some of my favorite features were removed like the dark theme and I don’t really like the new retweet feature and the quote feature only lets you use “via” instead of “RT”. Anyway,...

Image by Kraftwerck via Flickr Last week Facebook announced that it is rolling out what is, effectively, its own version of the retweet. The new ‘via’ feature allows users to repost another user’s shared items. As with the retwee...

Social Software, Microblogging "Retweeting" -- reposting someone else's content on your own account -- is so popular on Twitter that there was a huge user debate about how the site should handle official support for it....

And it keeps happening; the integration of Twitter like features into Facebook as the social network today introduced a function similar to Twitter’s ReTweet. With the new feature that is currently in test mode, Facebook will autom...

Last month Twitter launched its new retweet feature in order to eliminate confusion and authenticate user quotes (as the copy & paste method was being exploited by spammers). Although the new retweet feature solved the latter issue,...

Twitbit [$2.99 - iTunes link] is the iPhone Twitter client that just won’t quit — pushing updates and new features almost as fast as notifications. The latest is Twitbit 2.3: Support for Twitter’s new retweet feature. Support for ...

A representative tweet from tonight says it all: “how can new RT’s be cool? No context, no editing possible.” (TechCrunch’s Mike Butcher said that). The new retweet feature is definitely the worst and best thing Twitter did this yea...

One of the biggest complaints about Twitter's new Retweet feature is that people don't like that it appears to inject random tweets into their tweet stream. Of course, those aren't random tweets, they are tweets that are being retwe...

If you haven’t tried Echofon yet, you’re missing out. Not only is it a deliciously designed desktop Twitter client for the mac, with a mass of features it’s also now become the first Twitter client to feature Twitter’s new retweet f...

The ability to retweet on Twitter was already available and has been mostly of use to those in business situations who could take advantage of their followers retweeting their promotions. This has been drastically changed with the r...

One of the best things about Twitter is the way that it allows content and information to spread quickly across the network from person-to-person. This happened for two reasons: 1. because Twitter is a one-to-many communications pl...

Today Twitter announced that it has enabled geotagging support for third-party Twitter clients, just two weeks after they began rolling out the new retweet feature. Following the announcement from Twitter, Stone Design announced tha...

I posted this heavily clicked review yesterday of retweets and I admitted that it was still pretty incomplete. At the time of writing, I was convinced that retweeting was for the better but, as Twitter notes, it’s still in beta. Tod...

Sandwiched in between monumental feature releases like Twitter Lists and the geolocation API has been Twitter’s most controversial feature yet: native support of retweets. The official rollout of the new retweet functionality starte...

Twitter began rolling out a new way for users to share each other's updates, but the new retweeting feature is getting panned in some corners of the Twitterverse.

Just a few minutes ago, I logged into Twitter.com to verify something and saw this glorious goodness: That’s actually not my screengrab, I stole it from this guy but I do now regret not screen-grabbing the feature for later use. I’...

Let’s play a game. On board? Pretend PubCon never ended (man up, liver!). You’re still in Vegas. You’re having fun. You’re dancing. You’re partaking in some adult beverages. It’s 5 in the morning when you finally decide to stumb...

Developer, Social Software, Microblogging Third-party Twitter apps have access to nearly all of Twitter's functions. Even the new lists feature and the new retweet format can be supported by any ambitious developer. It'...

Social Software, Microblogging There's been a flurry of news and views surrounding Twitter's retweet feature as it rolls out to more users this week. To sum up, limited introduction of the new feature was announced, the...