Thursday, November 5th, 2009 by Andy Beal

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Twitter Rolling Out Retweets, Rolling Over Trends Spam

Remember Twitter’s plans to make “retweeting” an official function?

Sure you do, the mock-ups looked like this:

Well, Twitter just announced the following:

We’ve just activated a feature called retweet on a very small percentage of accounts in order to see how it works in the wild. Retweet is a button that makes forwarding a particularly interesting tweet to all your followers very easy. In turn, we hope interesting, newsworthy, or even just plain funny information will spread quickly through the network making its way efficiently to the people who want or need to know.

So keep your eyes peeled, because you might be one of the lucky ones!

PS. If you’re not seeing the retweet option, Twitter has a consolation prize for you. It’s cleaning up the spam in trending topics.


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7 comments on “Twitter Rolling Out Retweets, Rolling Over Trends Spam”

  1. David Walker Says:

    November 5th, 2009 at 10:17 pm

    Welcome news Andy, even if I don’t get to be one of the lucky ones :) If it works, retweeting would be very easy and the tweets would multiply..Glad about the relief offered for the index finger too..why didn’t they think of this earlier?
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  3. Ahmad Barirani Says:

    November 6th, 2009 at 10:59 am

    I thought Twitter was a tool for spammers. How come they’re fighting it?
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  6. Harsh Agrawal Says:

    November 7th, 2009 at 10:41 pm

    I find this update worth considering, but seems like my twitter profile is not as lucky as other
    lucky people who see this new update
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