2009-12-01
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quote 21:37:48
“ Using the new “native” retweet system gives your followers more control over their own stream. It’s the courteous thing to do. And if you wish to add a comment to your retweet, Tweetie 2.1 lets you do that ”
Give Retweets a Chance at the Tweetie support site.
This post succinctly sums up the advantages to “proper” (as opposed to “folk”) “retweets”, and they rest on one thing: metadata. As with replies, doing so using Twitter’s API methods gives users the metadata they need to do useful things: in the case of retweets, collapse repeats, and hide or ignore retweets. Not doing so deprives them of it, forcing them to scrape for data (or just put up with things). Don’t do that.
