Brandon Beasley
Twitter is rolling out a new feature to some lucky users which will allow you to retweet much easier. Retweeting has been around since the beginning but not everyone knew about it or how to use retweets effectively. Enter “Project Retweet” which is being released to developers and Twitter API users. The project was recently in phase 1 and the official word from twitter was: “Phase one of project retweet is to show the developer community how it will work from an API perspective as well as a user perspective”.
See a screenshot of the new Retweet feature after the jump:
On November 5, 2009 Twitter began rolling out project retweet to a very small percentage of accounts to see how it would work in the wild. The retweet button allows you to forward interesting tweets to all your followers very easily. Twitter believes this will allow interesting, newsworthy, and even funny tweets to spread quickly throughout the “twitterverse” which efficiently gets the information to users who want or need to know.
Twitter has promised to continue rolling out project retweet until everyone has access to it. The plan is to see how it goes first with this small release. If it needs more work, they will know right away as twitter users are very fast to throw in a #failwhale hashtag and point out issues with the new project.
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