Kudos to the API team for letting developers in on the new API features.
Not to go on a rant but working with the Twitter API restore sanity I lost back when I worked with Facebook's "thing". I don't even want to call it an API, whatever it was.
"It was important for us that retweets are easily differentiated visually from regular tweets."
This stems from a misreading of why people retweet stuff. People retweet stuff because someone else said something they'd like to say themselves. Adding the RT: @source is a concession to good manners and etiquette. If every retweet someone sends is marked as "unoriginal content" I can see the number of things retweeted in general take a nosedive. Who wants to be exposed as a conduit for other people's ideas?
Maybe people sometimes want the status from being associated with someone famous. People also unabashedly like quotes, as well as being part of a movement. So I'm not sure if RTing will go down.
Are you giving your own opinion on the matter or is this something mentioned by the Twitter Dev team?
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 36.0 ms ] threadNot to go on a rant but working with the Twitter API restore sanity I lost back when I worked with Facebook's "thing". I don't even want to call it an API, whatever it was.
This stems from a misreading of why people retweet stuff. People retweet stuff because someone else said something they'd like to say themselves. Adding the RT: @source is a concession to good manners and etiquette. If every retweet someone sends is marked as "unoriginal content" I can see the number of things retweeted in general take a nosedive. Who wants to be exposed as a conduit for other people's ideas?
Are you giving your own opinion on the matter or is this something mentioned by the Twitter Dev team?
This would not be a bad thing.