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Why You Shouldn’t Use Twitter’s Built-In Retweet Feature Too Often

By Shoq, on January 21, 2011, at 5:18 pm

 

It's been well over a year since Twitter implemented its built-in "new" retweet feature, which for many of us, immediately wrecked what had been one of Twitter's best features: the old retweeting style which evolved organically from the user-base, and with no input from Twitter whatever.

Naturally, something that millions of people loved just had

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January 21st, 2011 | Category: Hash Tags, Retweets, Tips Index, Twitter Tips, Twitter Welcome Wagon | 17 comments

About the #FF Hashtag

By Shoq, on December 5, 2009, at 1:09 am

This post has been updated.

Update: See latest Google Hit Counts: #Followfriday vs. #FF  Click here to jump.

What is the #FF Hashtag?

It's just a much shorter version of the familiar #followFriday hashtag seen far too often on Twitter (and now other social networks, as well).  And

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December 5th, 2009 | Category: #FF Tag, Hash Tags, Retweets, Support, Twitter, Twitter Tips | One comment

New Retweet Still Disabled, But Few Missing It.

By Shoq, on November 12, 2009, at 4:53 pm

It's amusing noting how most of the big tech blogs (which get a lot of traffic from Twitter), are deferential in their reviews, merely making passing reference to the intense dislike and confusion.  Read Mashable, Techcrunch, and other big dogs, and it's all sort of "well, some like it, some don't.. la di da." Mashable

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November 12th, 2009 | Category: Retweets, Social Media | One comment

The reviews roll in: New Retweet= #FAIL

By Shoq, on November 12, 2009, at 2:02 am

I just hate being right sometimes… wait, no I don't.

I love Twitter. Let's be clear on that.  But we can be critical of the things we love.

The reviews are already coming fast on "Project Retweet," and they're not pretty.

After the brief status blurb from CNET below,

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November 12th, 2009 | Category: Retweets, Support, Twitter | 95 comments

The new Twitter retweets: be afraid.

By Shoq, on November 11, 2009, at 7:29 pm

The new Twitter retweet system has been unleashed, and it's a classic example of taking something that worked, and breaking it. Rather than simplify something most regular Twitter users understood and used rather creatively, they have now created a hybrid pastiche of behaviors where retweets will mean different things to different people, depending on how

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November 11th, 2009 | Category: Retweets, Support, Technology, Twitter, Twitter Tips | 97 comments