• Has Twitter Dumped That Hated Retweet Function?

    Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

    Mike Butcher is the European Editor for TechCrunch. A former grunge rock drummer, he became a long time journalist, and has since written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman. Mike is also a co-founder and shareholder of TechHub, a co-working space/service/community with several locations... → Learn More

    Twitter’s Retweet functionality, which has caused so much consternation appears to have disappeared not long after it was introduced last month.

    The Retweets area in the right side bar has gone and the RT function button on people’s profiles has gone as well.

    The design of the Retweet feature created huge confusion over how RTs were attributed, plus different client applications treated RTs differently. Retweets of these retweets were even worse.

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