Twitter’s Retweet Project Begins Rollout
In: News | By: Chris Brandrick
6 Nov 2009Twitter has just confirmed that the rollout of their retweet project has now officially began.
The company have confirmed that the new retweet functionality, which integrates the retweeting experience directly into users Twitter.com account, has now been activated on a select number of accounts.
For those unfamiliar with the retweet project it all started earlier this year, when 
Twitter announced that it would begin to officially support the popular ‘retweet’ action used on their site. A retweet is when one user republishes another users tweet in order to spread the word or message. Currently this republishing is done simply by copying and pasting the other users message, and accrediting them by displaying ‘RT @username’ as a precursor to the copied message. This action has been favorably adopted by third-parties and now makes up a large part of what Twitter is about, with it now being present in a number of applications, programs and websites.
Unfortunately we are yet to have the new functionality on our accounts, but if you are using the new retweet features be sure to let us know!
[Via TheNextWeb]
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