Shoq Value » Retweets http://shoqvalue.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:16:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Why You Shouldn’t Use Twitter’s Built-In Retweet Feature Too Often http://shoqvalue.com/dont-use-twitter-retweets http://shoqvalue.com/dont-use-twitter-retweets#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:18:47 +0000 Shoq http://shoqvalue.com/?p=2543  

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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]]> http://shoqvalue.com/dont-use-twitter-retweets/feed 16 About the #FF Hashtag http://shoqvalue.com/the-ff-hashtag-and-the-anytime-ff http://shoqvalue.com/the-ff-hashtag-and-the-anytime-ff#comments Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:09:01 +0000 Shoq http://shoqvalue.com/?p=505 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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]]> http://shoqvalue.com/the-ff-hashtag-and-the-anytime-ff/feed 1 New Retweet Still Disabled, But Few Missing It. http://shoqvalue.com/new-retweet-still-disabled-but-few-missing-it http://shoqvalue.com/new-retweet-still-disabled-but-few-missing-it#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:53:15 +0000 Shoq http://shoqvalue.com/?p=391 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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]]> http://shoqvalue.com/new-retweet-still-disabled-but-few-missing-it/feed 1 The reviews roll in: New Retweet= #FAIL http://shoqvalue.com/the-reviews-roll-in-new-retweet-fail http://shoqvalue.com/the-reviews-roll-in-new-retweet-fail#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:02:59 +0000 Shoq http://shoqvalue.com/?p=379 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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]]> http://shoqvalue.com/the-reviews-roll-in-new-retweet-fail/feed 95 The new Twitter retweets: be afraid. http://shoqvalue.com/the-new-twitter-retweets-be-afraid http://shoqvalue.com/the-new-twitter-retweets-be-afraid#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:29:30 +0000 Shoq http://shoqvalue.com/?p=374 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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