Stop the presses. This is a big one. In what feels like a way overdue move, Twitter has officially launched its “retweet with comment” feature. Cue squeals of excitement from the chronically wordy among us.
Not only does the new feature allow users to embed a tweet in their own tweets, it also provides a sneaky way around the 140-character limit. Am I the only one jumping up and down with joy here? How many times have you wanted to retweet something hilarious with your own (equally hilarious and pithy, no doubt) take on the situation? Exactly.
It’s fair to acknowledge that it has been possible to retweet and comment on third-party platforms such as Tweetdeck previously, but to be able to do it natively within Twitter is infinitely more awesome. Let’s be honest, who among us uses Tweetdeck for their personal account on the go? But having seen the feature on those platforms, it seemed like a no-brainer that the same should be possible on Twitter itself. Instead, users were forced to bypass the retweet button, and copy/paste/shorten tweets, using “RT” after their commentary (a.k.a the old-school way of retweeting).
But no more! You no longer have to painstakingly try to edit tweets to yield a result that both preserves the spirit and context of the original tweet, and leaves room for what you want to add — the original is intact below your own comment.
Naturally my first thought was: “How many retweets and comments can you in turn retweet and comment?!” Unfortunately, the feature only lets you quote one layer of tweets, so that put the kibosh on a retweet-ception. Probably for the best — my brain hurts just thinking about the meta-retweet-and-commenting that could take place.
What can I say, Twitter? Better late than never.
Retweet With Comment Arrives; Verbose Twitter Users Rejoice
Stop the presses. This is a big one. In what feels like a way overdue move, Twitter has officially launched its “retweet with comment” feature. Cue squeals of excitement from the chronically wordy among us.
Not only does the new feature allow users to embed a tweet in their own tweets, it also provides a sneaky way around the 140-character limit. Am I the only one jumping up and down with joy here? How many times have you wanted to retweet something hilarious with your own (equally hilarious and pithy, no doubt) take on the situation? Exactly.
It’s fair to acknowledge that it has been possible to retweet and comment on third-party platforms such as Tweetdeck previously, but to be able to do it natively within Twitter is infinitely more awesome. Let’s be honest, who among us uses Tweetdeck for their personal account on the go? But having seen the feature on those platforms, it seemed like a no-brainer that the same should be possible on Twitter itself. Instead, users were forced to bypass the retweet button, and copy/paste/shorten tweets, using “RT” after their commentary (a.k.a the old-school way of retweeting).
But no more! You no longer have to painstakingly try to edit tweets to yield a result that both preserves the spirit and context of the original tweet, and leaves room for what you want to add — the original is intact below your own comment.
Naturally my first thought was: “How many retweets and comments can you in turn retweet and comment?!” Unfortunately, the feature only lets you quote one layer of tweets, so that put the kibosh on a retweet-ception. Probably for the best — my brain hurts just thinking about the meta-retweet-and-commenting that could take place.
What can I say, Twitter? Better late than never.
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