SxDSalon: A group blog on social interaction design

RT vs. Retweet

This is a post about "retweeting," a beautifully evolved and delicate little social dance called that Twitter users invented, and Twitter's so-called "Retweet" feature, which stomps on it. In this post, I'll call the original, organically evolved practice "RT" (as it is usually written in tweets), and Twitter's confusingly named mis-feature "Retweet" (with uppercase "R"). Social Relationship An RT comes from somebody I follow. The reason I follow people on Twitter is because I want to know...