Evan Williams | evhead: Why Retweet works the way it does
I'm making this post because I know the design of this feature will be somewhat controversial. People understandably have expectations of how the retweet function should work. And I want to show some of the thinking that's gone into it....

The Awesome Potential Of Retweet
While there are many new features that Twitter could launch, the most powerful are likely to be based on behaviors that users have invented themselves.That’s exactly what happened with @replies. Users started addressing each other by their...

Twitter Explains the New Retweet Feature
At this point, a fair number of Twitter users have the new retweet feature enabled (and if you’re not one of them, don’t worry, the rollout continues). While we’ve weighed both the pros and the cons based on the early descriptions and screenshots...

Twitter Explains the New Retweet Feature
At this point, a fair number of Twitter users have the new retweet feature enabled (and if you’re not one of them, don’t worry, the rollout continues). While we’ve weighed both the pros and the cons based on the early descriptions and screenshots...

Twitter Explains the New Retweet Feature
At this point, a fair number of Twitter users have the new retweet feature enabled (and if you’re not one of them, don’t worry, the rollout continues). While we’ve weighed both the pros and the cons based on the early descriptions and screenshots...

Twitter Explains the New Retweet Feature
At this point, a fair number of Twitter users have the new retweet feature enabled (and if you’re not one of them, don’t worry, the rollout continues). While we’ve weighed both the pros and the cons based on the early descriptions and screenshots...