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Retweet was invented by the users (RT:) just as commenting with the link to the original tweet (retweet with comment) was a user custom before Twitter did anyth
by protomyth 9y ago
Retweet was invented by the users (RT:) just as commenting with the link to the original tweet (retweet with comment) was a user custom before Twitter did anything about it. Not sure how you force users not to invent their own ways to use a service.
- geoffpado 9y agoObviously it's only _partially_ helpful in their case, but you could do something like Reddit does: links to other tweets on Twitter would be "read-only", with no way to post or respond from the page you end up on. Pair this with not automatically rendering retweets on the main timeline, and it could go a long way toward neutering "retweet mobs".