[Air-L] Twitter Re-Design

[live]

Yeah....things didn't go as well at they wanted on release.
The UX engineer lives in my town, and well, word spreads over late  
night poutine carts.

Also from CNET:
"Twitter issues mulligan on new 'retweet' feature"
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10395812-36.html

-Sharon


@SharonG


On Nov 11, 2009, at 8:41 PM, Mary K. Bryson wrote:

> The blog that I was quoting from concerning the redesign, was  
> published
> yesterday, and is written by Evan Williams,  CEO of Twitter,  
> announcing
> that:
> This week on Twitter, we're rolling a feature we've been working on  
> for a
> while out to a lot more users. (If you don't have it yet, you will  
> soon.)
> That feature is our native version of Retweet, which Biz posted
> <http://blog.twitter.com/2009/08/project-retweet-phase-one.html>   
> about on
> the Twitter blog a couple months ago.
>
> http://evhead.com/2009/11/why-retweet-works-way-it-does.html
>
> Seems like a done deal.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mary
> -- 
> Dr. Mary K. Bryson, Professor and Director, Network of Centers and
> Institutes in Education (NCIE) & Center for Cross-Faculty Inquiry  
> (CCFI),
> Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia
> Archive: http://ubc.academia.edu/MaryKBryson
>
> CCFI: Innovation Works Here
> http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/
>
>
>> From: live <human.factor.one at gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:34:34 -0800
>> To: Mary Bryson <mary.bryson at ubc.ca>
>> Cc: danah boyd <aoir.z3z at danah.org>, <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Twitter Re-Design
>>
>> By the by - Rael said that they've pulled back the deployment of this
>> feature redesign.
>> Apparently there were some technical difficulties. So retweet design
>> is on hold for the time being.
>> Hopefully while they figure out the backend issues, they can also
>> rethink the design strategy.
>>
>>
>> Sharon Greenfield
>> Digital Ethnographer
>> @SharonG
>>
>>
>> On Nov 11, 2009, at 7:58 PM, Mary K. Bryson wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for sending this fabulous paper, danah -
>>>
>>> Danah + colleagues' paper provides lots of really good examples that
>>> underscore the socio-cultural complexities of retweeting - and to
>>> the point
>>> here, specifically what will be lost in Twitter's own redesign of
>>> the RT
>>> syntax. Twitters redesigned syntax --
>>> Described here --
>>> http://evhead.com/2009/11/why-retweet-works-way-it-does.html
>>>