Monkey Cage Twitter users mostly retweet politicians and celebrities. That’s a big change. Unlike Facebook, it has not spread virally across the planet.

Artists say Twitter’s changes to retweets hurt their exposure, which could make it harder to get attention and work. They’re asking followers not to quote retweet them, and just do a plain ...

The new “retweet with comment” feature was first spotted by Mashable, which noticed that Twitter’s head of product communications, Carolyn Penner, was testing this on her own timeline.

Twitter leadership has made it a goal of the last few years to be more transparent about its decision-making. In that spirit, Dantley Davis, Twitter’s vice president of design and research ...

The change came before the US election but appears to have achieved little. Pocket-lint. Menu. ... Twitter reverts its retweets method twitter. By Max Freeman-Mills. Published Dec 17, 2020.

Senior Twitter execs shared an overview of the election safety and anti-misinformation measures put in place. The retweet change is here to stay for now.

We want to change. What made sense 12 years ago doesn’t make sense today.” For many of Twitter’s 326 million monthly active users , changes can’t come soon enough.

In fact, none of this is to say that the Retweet change is the wrong call to make. When I first read about it, before even seeing it in action, it made perfect sense to me as a concept.

Before Twitter announced the update in a tweet on Wednesday, Oct. 21, there was some confusion, since the change began showing up on Twitter for desktop as early as Oct. 9 for some users.

Twitter announced that it would also be making the .@ redundant at the same time it announced that it would ... The self-retweet will hardly change the way the Internet looks to the same ...

When MSNBC host Joy Reid saw a tweet decrying a racist incident this summer, she responded like many other people—she retweeted it. The tweet in question came from an activist and showed a photo ...

As Twitter continues evolving under Elon Musk’s reign, one of the platform’s latest changes prevents users from liking or retweeting posts with Substack links.