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Re:New Twitter Code For Retweet: ♺ by riklomas on Thursday January 15, 2009 @10:52AM (#435249)
Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer using "RT" as it's pretty easy to type, it's in popular usage on Twitter (so no need to explain the crazy recycling symbol), plus it's only one extra letter
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Re:New Twitter Code For Retweet: ♺ by sh1mmer on Thursday January 15, 2009 @11:23AM (#435283)
"RT" as it's pretty easy to type

That's pretty much it. Anything that I can't type on a Mac using alt and possibly shift is pretty out there.

Not only that but who the heck has access to that unicode symbol on a cell phone?

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Re:New Twitter Code For Retweet: ♺ by sdfx on Thursday January 15, 2009 @12:19PM (#435350)
Not just that, a lot of computer can't even display it correctly. Maybe twitter could auto-replace it with a small image of the sign, but that might break some twitter applications.
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