Twitter’s Retweet Button Is ‘Loaded Weapon’, Says the Man Who Designed It

Re:Twitter’s Retweet Button Is ‘Loaded Weapon’, Says the Man... by kieckerjan on Friday July 26, 2019 @05:17AM (#20533451)

Twitter should have taken their own philosophy of constrainment much further: limit not just the number of characters, but also the number of allowed tweets and retweets a day. If you were allowed to do only three retweets a day, you would think twice about hitting that damn button.

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Re:Twitter’s Retweet Button Is ‘Loaded Weapon’, Says the Man... by CM30 on Friday July 26, 2019 @08:51AM (#20534371)

Seems like a good way of losing your traffic to sites/services that don't have said limitations. Would Twitter have become so big in the first place with them? Doubt it.

And if they tried to implement it now, they'd just give both competitors (like Gab) and decentralised alternatives (like Mastodon) the best free advertising of their lives.

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Re:Twitter’s Retweet Button Is ‘Loaded Weapon’, Says the Man... by NeonTiger1992 on Friday July 26, 2019 @09:47AM (#20534750)

This^^

Plenty of competitors that are more than willing to cash in on any changes. Can twitter afford to lose out in this regard..?

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Re:Twitter’s Retweet Button Is ‘Loaded Weapon’, Says the Man... by NeonTiger1992 on Friday July 26, 2019 @05:23AM (#20533468)

You would probably think twice, I agree with that.

However, if restrictions like that were to be introduced now, for example, I think there would be an almighty mess for Twitter and Dorsey to clean up.

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