Microblogging and hugely successful website Twitter has announced that they are planning reforms to the site to incorporate retweeting. Retweeting, the process of forwarding someone else’s tweet to your own followers, has been an integral feature behind Twitter’s phenomenal success. However, up until now, the process within the Twitter website itself has been highly cumbersome, with users having to copy and paste the tweet into their own feed, placing RT at the beginning. Of course, many third parties have automatically solved the problem, and many users simply use these third party programs to do the work for them.
That is until now. Project Retweet has been launched by Twitter in a move to make retweeting within their home site far easier for users. According to developers within the company, retweets will now not only be quick to send, but will appear differently in the tweeting feed. In addition, twitterers will be able to see who has retweeted their comments and how many times this has been done.
Explaining on the company blog, co-founder Ev Williams said “We are still sketching out exactly how this feature and its API counterpart works. Sharing our thoughts before launching means developers will have the opportunity to prepare their applications. In a few weeks or so we’ll launch the feature on our web site and because app developers had a chance to prepare, it should become available across most of the Twitter ecosystem about the same time. This way, we can all enjoy retweeting—however we choose to access Twitter.”
