Daniel Ionescu

Micro-blogging service Twitter says it is working on a new tool to help you “retweet.” Retweeting is jargon for re-posting something posted (or tweeted) by another user. Retweeting typically gives credit to the original poster. In offering this feature Twitter is just playing catch-up to what 3rd party apps already do.

Reposting or retweeting a mesage you like on Twitter.com can only be done via cutting and pasting the tweet and then adding attribution (such as RT: @username) at the beginning or the end of the post. But now Twitter is working on a new method to repost tweets on its online interface that will show in your friend’s timeline only the original message you retweeted. [Read article]