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Re:Why Retweet works the way it does by joshwa on Wednesday November 11, 2009 @07:54AM (#935149)
Besides the commenting thing, something I haven't seen covered elsewhere is that I won't have any idea WHO retweeted the thing that shows up in my timeline. The authority (and, indeed, just the personality) of the person recommending the tweet has a lot to do with whether or not I care, or what my expectations for a link in that retweet might be.

EDIT: looks like the screenshot in ev's post was misleading-- it does show who retweeted:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/10/hate-it-or-love-it-twit...

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Re:Why Retweet works the way it does by steveklabnik on Wednesday November 11, 2009 @08:28AM (#935190)
Isn't it supposed to add "retweeted by x (and x others)" down at the bottom by "from web"?

I thought that's how I read that it was going to work... I don't have the feature yet, so I can't tell you.

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Re:Why Retweet works the way it does by joshwa on Wednesday November 11, 2009 @09:14AM (#935265)
the screenshot in ev's post didn't show that, but now I see that the screenshot on Techcrunch does. That makes me feel a bit better.
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