Agreed. Similar to what they're doing with ReTweets, or at least are rumored to be doing. (showcasing the original tweet in your followers' streams and just say

Agreed. Similar to what they're doing with ReTweets, or at least are rumored to be doing. (showcasing the original tweet in your followers' streams and just saying who it was retweeted by) There is also a huge benefit to developers if they separate the stuff out - no more parsing tweets for mentions/hashtags because there's a separate field for them as well as possible fields for other info.