A recent poll has indicated that users prefer the old retweet method to the new one, instituted by Twitter within the past two months. The poll , conducted by Karen Goel, found that 64% of participants prefer the old version of retweets. Are users longing for the old retweets because of nostalgia, or did Twitter make a misstep in switching up the retweet process
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Old vs. New Retweets, and Twitter’s Plight for Control.
We’ve got a couple official stores in the spotlight this week, with EA kicking off the third week of their summer sale and Capcom offering a special deal on fightsticks.
Yesterday, select Facebook data from over 100 million accounts turned up on a 2.8GB torrent file. It may shock you to know that employees at companies like Sega and Lucasfilm were interested in downloading said information
Ladies and gentlemen, grab your forks. Please insert into this week
One of the key points we tried to hammer home at our Techdirt Saves* Journalism event in June was the importance of realizing that news organizations are really in the business of building community . So many in the news business focus on the belief that they’re in the “news” business, but that’s never really been the case. The news has always been the piece that brings together a community (and the business of a news organization has usually been to then sell that community’s attention to advertisers)
This Spring at Twitter’s first developer conference Chirp the big splash was a forthcoming feature called Annotations. The feature will allow publishing software to annotate Tweets with a wide open variety of metadata, which could then be read and analyzed by other software.
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