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By making it easier to repeat a tweet than to comment on it, they discourage users from advancing a conversation.

Twitter Watch: Twitter’s new retweet feature is the worst ever.

“Oh yeah, now I remember. Conversation - wherein a stranger hacks and mangles the already pithiest of statements in order to add the kind of discursive value only a few words of well-placed LOLspeak can bring to the table.” – texburgher

Yeah, because that’s the only way you’ve ever seen people interact on Twitter. Do you want your donation to Team Lucy Kate back?

(via nickdouglas)

If you want a “conversation” use the @reply.

Repeating something I said is not a conversation.

Repeating something I said and adding your own text to it (if there is room) usually leaves you with a message which is hard to understand. Who said what?

Mangled retweets are by far the most prevalent, and they often get mangled even by good intentioned people who are retweeting a 140 character post.

If you want to retweet something, what Twitter is doing is the right solution.

If you want to add to what someone else said, or reply to it, there are other means of doing that than retweeting.

99% of retweeting is like 99% of Flash use on the Internet: useless and annoying.

I don’t know what the hell you were talking about bringing Team Lucy Kate into this, but I suspect that if you asked Josh, he’d tell you that the @replies/ emails / DM he’s received meant a whole lot more than someone “retweeting” him.

And if you really want to use “the old way” of retweeting, nothing will stop you from using copy and paste.

Much ado about nothing.