Retweet was an unoffical trend on twitter, with many of the users doing it. But recently, Twitter brought it in officially. So now, anyone can do it. It's great! But it shows how Twitter is a company that sees what its users are doing and responds to that. You can choose not to see people's official retweets, but users of apps like twhirl, you will still see their retweets. Unfortunately though, the 3rd party apps like twhirl don't use the official retweet button, but that's ok. But this is a good step for twitter, and hopefully going to make it a long-term social networking site.
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Well... Third party applications do support the official retweet button. At least, TweetDeck does. You just click one button and the message is retweeted to all your followers. And one qualm I have about the official retweet button is that if you're using Twitter from the web it can be increasingly difficult to see who has retweeted your tweets. If you're following someone and they retweet one of your tweets, that retweet won't appear on the web homepage or the @yourusername section. Sigh. Thankfully TweetDeck shows them quite clearly.
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