We thought we’d try something a little bit different for this week’s edition of our Web Faceoff series. Last week we saw Digg beat out Reddit and StumbleUpon for social news champion, and this week we’re throwing out a timely but more provincial battle: Twitter’s new official retweet feature versus the “old school” method of text-based “RT-ing.”

Since it was first announced back in August, reactions were mixed over the plan to alter how retweets were officially treated by Twitter.com as well as clients. Now that the feature is live to everyone, we wanted to get a sense of where the Mashable audience stands on the New versus the Old method of re-broadcasting another user’s tweet.

Check out the poll below and make sure to cast your vote by noon PST this Friday, December 25. Do you prefer the Old Way or the New? Even if you actually use both styles depending on the situation, we’d like to know which you’d take with you to that proverbial desert island. As always, be sure to let us know in the comments why your vote went down the way it did. We’ll be interested to see the final results later this week; be sure to check back for the recap.

Who would win in a fight: New or old style Twitter retweets?(poll)

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Web Faceoff: Overall Results

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Week 1:
- Mozilla Firefox vs. Google Chrome
- WINNER: Firefox, 4600 votes (Chrome: 3310 votes, Tie: 911 votes)

Week 2:
- Tumblr vs. Posterous
- WINNER: Tumblr, 1809 votes (Posterous: 1496 votes, Tie: 256 votes)

Week 3:
- Pandora vs. Last.fm
- WINNER: Last.fm, 1187 votes (Pandora: 1156 votes, Tie: 122 votes)

Week 4:
- Twitter vs. Facebook
- WINNER: Facebook, 2484 votes (Twitter: 2061 votes, Tie: 588 votes)

Week 5:
- WordPress vs. Typepad
- WINNER: WordPress, 2714 votes (Typepad: 267 votes, Tie: 357 votes)

Week 6:
- Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard
- WINNER: Windows 7, 3632 votes (Snow Leopard: 3278 votes, Tie: 121 votes)

Week 7:
- TweetDeck vs. Seesmic Desktop
- WINNER: TweetDeck, 3294 votes (Seesmic Desktop: 1055 votes, Tie: 260 votes)

Week 8:
- Microsoft Office vs. Google Docs
- WINNER: Microsoft Office, 1365 votes (Google Docs: 994 votes, Tie: 315 votes)

Week 9:
- Apple iPhone vs. Google Android
- WINNER: Google Android, 3323 votes (Apple iPhone: 1494 votes, Tie: 228 votes)

Week 10:
- AT&T vs. Verizon
- WINNER: Verizon, 1161 votes (AT&T: 538 votes, Tie: 118 votes)

Week 11:
- Google vs. Bing
- WINNER: Google, 2180 votes (Bing: 519 votes, Tie: 97 votes)

Week 12:
- iPod Touch/iPhone vs. Nintendo DS vs. Sony PSP
- WINNER: iPod Touch/iPhone, 704 votes (Sony PSP: 639 votes, Nintendo DS: 482 votes, Tie: 108 votes)

Week 13:
- Digg vs. Reddit vs. StumbleUpon
- WINNER: Digg, 14,762 votes (Reddit: 11,466 votes, StumbleUpon: 2507 votes, Tie: 1032 votes)

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Reviews: Bing, Chrome, Digg, Facebook, Firefox, Google, Google Docs, Mashable, Pandora, Poll, Posterous, Seesmic Desktop, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, TweetDeck, Twitter, TypePad, WordPress

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