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Twitter Makes Retweets With Comments Easier to Find

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Twitter today announced the official rollout of its new Quote Tweets feature, which is designed to make tweets about a tweet easier to located.

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Twitter is now calling retweets with comments Quote Tweets, and Quote Tweets are now visible when tapping into a tweet and selecting the "Quote Tweets" option to see all quoted replies in one spot.

Viewing Quote Tweets shows the original tweet along with the commentary, and photos, videos, and GIFs are included.


Before implementing the new Quote Tweet feature, these kinds of tweet replies were treated as regular tweets, which could make it harder for the original creator to view and respond to replies. The new Quote Tweets feature is available on Twitter on iPhone and iPad.

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I know a lot of people hate quote tweets because they think it allows people to do snarky replies to a tweet rather than engaging. Twitter has features now where you can limit who can reply to your tweets or turn off replies all together. Couldn’t they add an option where you can disable the quote tweet option? Though I have to say if your account is public and especially if your a blue check mark you should allow replies and quote tweets.
 
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Would really enjoy having the ability to sync between devices on the native twitter app.
 
This really deviates from their core value of helping people shout endlessly into a void.
 
Rogifan said:
I know a lot of people hate quote tweets because they think it allows people to do snarky replies to a tweet rather than engaging. Twitter has features now where you can limit who can reply to your tweets or turn off replies all together. Couldn’t they add an option where you can disable the quote tweet option? Though I have to say if your account is public and especially if your a blue check mark you should allow replies and quote tweets.
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I think this problem will solve itself. Verified people that don't allow replies are going to get WAY less engagement, and will either leave the platform or start allowing replies again.
 
AngerDanger said:
A social media platform some people feign ignorance of to signal that their time on the internet is better spent than others.
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No, becoming the target of the infamous @AngerDanger proves my time on the 1nt4rw3bz was better spent than others! Feigning ignorance was just poking the bears a little.

:p:eek:o_O
 
Rogifan said:
Couldn’t they add an option where you can disable the quote tweet option? Though I have to say if your account is public and especially if your a blue check mark you should allow replies and quote tweets.
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This would be pointless, because you can always take a screenshot of the tweet, and then tweet that.

Quote-tweeting is a better option for the person being quoted because they have the option of deleting the original tweet, and this would make the quoted version go away too, unlike a screenshot which the quoted person has no control over. It's also better for everyone in general because screenshots aren't friendly to visually impaired people using screen readers, making he tweet inaccessible.

Disabling quote-tweeting would encourage screenshotting, which is why I suspect Twitter hasn't done it.
 
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zorinlynx said:
they have the option of deleting the original tweet, and this would make the quoted version go away too
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Would it work that way? It doesn't seem that's how it works in other places where quoting is used, like even these very forums, for example.
 
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AngerDanger said:
A social media platform some people feign ignorance of to signal that their time on the internet is better spent than others.

:p
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Hahahaha, I laughed so hard at your reply.

But I give some credit to the original poster, I created a Twitter account for my business and I found it unusable, I really did not understand well how it worked and basically just have it as a placeholder so that no one takes my company name. Snapchat was another horribly unintuitive UI experience.
 
zorinlynx said:
This would be pointless, because you can always take a screenshot of the tweet, and then tweet that.

Quote-tweeting is a better option for the person being quoted because they have the option of deleting the original tweet, and this would make the quoted version go away too, unlike a screenshot which the quoted person has no control over. It's also better for everyone in general because screenshots aren't friendly to visually impaired people using screen readers, making he tweet inaccessible.

Disabling quote-tweeting would encourage screenshotting, which is why I suspect Twitter hasn't done it.
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You’re probably right. People do screenshots anyway. What Twitter needs to get rid of is the delete option. At least for verified accounts. Maybe allow a small window where you can edit or delete to correct spelling.
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Would it work that way? It doesn't seem that's how it works in other places where quoting is used, like even these very forums, for example.
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I don’t think the quote tweet goes away. Underneath the quote tweet comment it says something like ‘this tweet has been deleted’.
 
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This is gonna be really useful for all of those people discussing and spreading qanon conspiracies.

Social media needs to die.
 
Why twitter is still relevant is beyond me. A platform mostly comprised of self righteous people with too much to say, and far too much time on their hands.
 
quote tweets... convenient.

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You know you don't have to follow these people right?
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I didn't come to that decision. You can't call it a 'social' network site without people yapping it up. It would kill the social aspect.
 
This is new? I've had this feature for at least a couple of weeks now. Maybe I was under a beta without knowing it.
 
it would be fricking awesome to get an edit tweet function in the 21st century.
 
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