4 ms·They had a discovery mechanism built in since the start, it is retweets.by Raed667 5y agoThey had a discovery mechanism built in since the start, it is retweets.illgenr 5y agoThen expanded with #'sjon-wood 5y agoI’m going to wade in with some pedantry here - retweets didn’t really exist for a fair bit of Twitter’s existence, and grew organically from users introducing the convention of prefixing reposts of other people’s content with an “RT @whoever”.