Laura Bergells is Maniactive

Laura Bergells is Maniactive

Laura Bergells  //  More than PowerPoint: I blog about the art + creativity of presentation. http://budurl.com/maniactive

Nov 10 / 2:47pm

Why I Will Continue to ReTweet Like It's October 2009

Today, Twitter introduced a new auto retweet feature. Two clicks, and you can retweet anyone on Twitter.

Instead of getting the classic "RT" - you get a new & cute auto retweet icon to precede your retweet.

Cuteness & ease-of-use aside, I tweeted that I'm going to retweet the old school way and manually type RT (or use the RT button in Tweetdeck!)

Why?

One word: Personalization!

It seems like an easy fix for Twitter to let us add/edit our Tweets instead of auto-retweeting them with two clicks. I hope they consider that refinement in the days to come!

'til then, I'm going to go retro and RT like it's October 2009.

For your viewing and listening enjoyment, I'm attaching a 2 minute video that shows the new feature and explains why I'm going retro rogue!

(Thanks to BobonBusiness, JonErp, oliviacp, ScottEnsink, and JRFire -- who all chimed in with their opinions on the new Twitter auto-retweet feature.)


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2 comments

Nov 10, 2009
John Rumery said...
Geez- I learn a lot from you!
Nov 15, 2009
Laura Bergells said...
Thanks, John! See you later this week!

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