Posts Tagged ‘retweet

Businesses and ad networks are increasingly finding new ways to integrate social media and advertising. This is evident with AdKnowledge’s recent acquisition of SocialMedia.com’s ad network, and it is also evident with TweetMeme’s new AdTweets. AdTweets is a product, which TweetMeme says is designed to reward advertisers for using engaging advertisements. "The Adtweets are a [...]

One of the best things about Twitter is the way that it allows content and information to spread quickly across the network from person-to-person. This happened for two reasons: 1. because Twitter is a one-to-many communications platform and 2. because it allows for content to be easily repeated. In fact, the latter led to what [...]

Sandwiched in between monumental feature releases like Twitter Lists and the geolocation API has been Twitter’s most controversial feature yet: native support of retweets. The official rollout of the new retweet functionality started earlier in the month, which CEO Evan Williams felt compelled to explain in detail. Now, however, the feature is live to all. [...]

Twitter is of course in the process of rolling out a new retweet feature. The feature adds a retweet button to each tweet on your timeline, much like the "reply" button that has always been there. However, one distinct difference between these two buttons is that where the reply button fills out your form with [...]

Update 3: Twitter is now telling me that I am part of a beta test group for the retweet features, so I guess it is no longer on hold. Update 2: Twitter says on the Twitter Status blog, "We’re working on a few problems related to the ongoing rollout. These should be resolved quickly and it will [...]


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