Mob Rule! How Users Took Over Twitter | Magazine - The Diigo Meta page

• 21 Nov 09
  

  Shanta Rohse

  Corporate culture at Twitter: “If there are three sentences I’d use to describe Twitter,” Stone says, “one of them would be ‘I don’t know.’”"

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• 03 Nov 09
  

  Susan Burns

  twitter community

• 02 Nov 09
  

  Andrea Denaro

  • Last August, the people who putatively run Twitter — the small crew that three years ago launched the world’s fastest-growing communications medium — announced a relatively minor change in the way the site functions. The tweak would have a small effect on retweeting, the convention by which Twitter users repost someone else’s informative or amusing message to their own Twitter followers. Retweets start with RT, for “retweet,” and usually cite the first author by user ID. And, importantly, retweeters often add a word or two of commentary about the repeated content.

    
    

    But there was a problem: Twitter itself didn’t invent retweeting; it was created by Twitter users. In a blog post explaining the changes to retweets, the company’s second-in-command, Biz Stone, called them “a great example of Twitter teaching us what it wants to be.” The good news, he said, was that Twitter was building retweets right into the site’s architecture. The bad news was that Project Retweet didn’t make any provision for the commentary that users might like to add.

    
    

    It didn’t take long for Twitter users to respond: How dare Twitter mess with … Twitter. A self-described “social, search, and viral marketing scientist” named Dan Zarrella posted a passionate cri de coeur, writing that Twitter was about to “completely eviscerate most of the value out of retweets.” That night, Zarrella created a Twitter hashtag — another grassroots Twitter convention, which lets users group their conversations — called #saveretweets. A few tweeters liked the plan, but the general consensus was summed up by one user skilled in Twitter’s uncompromising brevity: “Very bad plan we hates it.”

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  Andrew Long

  Headline article at Wired looking into the ongoing retweets saga at Twitter.

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• 27 Oct 09
  

  Driessen Samuel

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• 26 Oct 09
  

  dobiho .

  twitter

• 21 Oct 09
  

  Erwin Michael Green

  Technology

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  Sunny Sullivan

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  Ileane Smith

  Last August, the people who putatively run Twitter — the small crew that three years ago launched the world's fastest-growing communications medium

  retweet #SaveReTweets

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  eric scherer

  vag

• 20 Oct 09
  

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  "Last August, the people who putatively run Twitter announced a relatively minor change in the way the site functions. The tweak would have a small effect on retweeting, the convention by which Twitter users repost someone else's informative or amusing message to their own Twitter followers. Retweets start with RT, for "retweet," and usually cite the first author by user ID. And, importantly, retweeters often add a word or two of commentary about the repeated content. But there was a problem: Twitter itself didn't invent retweeting; it was created by Twitter users. In a blog post explaining the changes to retweets, the company's second-in-command, Biz Stone, called them "a great example of Twitter teaching us what it wants to be." The good news, he said, was that Twitter was building retweets right into the site's architecture. The bad news was that Project Retweet didn't make any provision for the commentary that users might like to add."

  Twitter Social Media

• 19 Oct 09
  

  Deborah Elzie

  twitter web2.0 learning learning from users

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  Phil Liff-Grieff

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