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Twitter recently introduced a BETA Features allowing a user to “repost” someones tweet, at first this caused many problems, because of the 140 character limit placed on tweets, retweeting someone else’s content sometimes meant editing their text in order to ensure that the customary “RT” and “@username” attributions fit. Second, because there’s often overlap in who we follow, retweets many times appeared more than once in your timeline if it was retweeted more than once. So a couple of days ago, Twitter developed and released a completely new retweet system.

OLD VS. NEW:

Retweeting someone used to be a completely manual process. You had to copy and paste their tweet, add the “RT” designation, and the “@username” attribution, then click the “update” button.

Twitter’s new retweet feature has turned these problems around. Now, instead of retweets by using the “RT” text, they have a special retweet icon.

Further, Twitter has fixed the redundancy issue by grouping together identical retweets. So It works like this in either your timeline or on any user’s profile page, a “Retweet” link will appear directly to the right of the “Reply” link that has always been there. To retweet the tweet, all you have to do is click on the link. You have different tabs for the new feature listed below:

Retweets by others – These are all the retweets by the people you follow.

Retweets by you – This tab shows all of the tweets that you have retweeted.

Your tweets, retweeted – These are your original tweets that others have retweeted.

To turn off retweets from a specific user, visit their profile page and click on the circular green retweet button that appears next to the “Following” message at the top of their page. Once you click on the button, it will turn grey, indicating that retweets from that user will no longer appear in your timeline. You can toggle this option on and off using this button.

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