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How Twitter Can Fix Both Retweets AND Replies

Written by jgilliam on August 30, 2009 — Comments

Twitter is planning to make retweets part of the API, but the way they are planning to do it fundamentally misunderstands the way people are retweeting. Sometimes, people want to just amplify exactly what the other person is saying. Twitter’s proposed changes handle that well. But people are also using RT to [...]

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How Twitter Can Fix Both Retweets AND Replies

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