As Tim mentioned, clients are empowered to uncollapse retweets if they'd like.
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:37 PM, 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 > -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/noradio
