Hey Dewald, What if your twitter client had a feature of showing you tweets in your timeline that had been retweeted by 10 or more people? That's possible now. It was very very difficult before.
Marcel, thanks for your reply earlier. I noticed something yesterday that indicated this 'probably' wasn't happening. (RT by NZKoz, which he's since deleted). I'll do more testing today, and likely find what was wrong with my testing yesterday. :-) Tim. On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Dewald Pretorius <[email protected]> wrote: > > Marcel, > > This collapsing behavior is far from ideal and will cause people with > busy timelines to completely miss retweets. > > Nobody is online 24x7, and if only the first retweet of an update is > shown in a user's timeline, they will miss completely it if the first > retweet happened several hours before they login and check their > timeline. > > In other words, someone can retweet the same update while they are > online and they still won't see it. > > From a Twitter-internal technical standpoint, new retweets are ideal > because it eliminates a lot of duplication and accompanying processing > and storage requirements. > > From a user's perspective, it is far from ideal. > > With old-style retweets, if I saw ten retweets of the same thing, I > knew to check it out because obviously a lot of people felt it was > something worth sharing with their followers. With the new retweets, > I'm going to miss that completely. Even if I notice the first retweet, > the "retweeted by" section may show only one or two people, and I > won't know that the update was retweeted by twenty more people after I > happened to look at it. > > In my irrelevant opinion, the new retweet feature is trying to fix > something that was not broken. > > Dewald > > On Nov 17, 3:58 pm, Marcel Molina <[email protected]> wrote: > > Should appear as a new tweet with the time of the retweet, not the > > original tweet creation time. That assumes though that no one else has > > retweeted it to you yet. If someone else has then this additional > > retweet won't appear in your timelines except for the > > statuses/retweets/id resource that lists up to 100 retweets for a > > given tweet. Duplicates are collapsed out of the other timelines. > > > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Tim Haines <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > I'm wondering if anyone can clarify. > > > The services I run often shown tweets that are several months old, and > offer > > > the RT button next to them. If someone clicks to RT the tweet, how > does the > > > tweet get presented to people that aren't following the original > tweeter? > > > Is it placed at the top of the timeline appearing as a new tweet, or > is it > > > placed at the time the original tweet was tweeted? i.e. months ago, so > > > likely to never be seen? > > > If it would be placed months ago, it makes RT pointless for older > tweets, in > > > which case I'll switch to 'classic mode' RT's. > > > Tim. > > > > -- > > Marcel Molina > > Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio >
