[Air-L] Twitter Re-Design

[Bertil Hatt]

I'm assuming the comments will be put in a second, standard tweet send
immediately after and a syntaxt meaning “This is a comment regarding
the just previously re-tweeted message by [original poster]”  (maybe
‘Re:RT @original_poster’, or better R at orignial_poster)

This will actually allow you to add a “full” comment, and I like that,
and it seems it will alleviate the tensions that boyd et al. detail in
their paper.

Whaterver is the outcome, the whole thing will be an interesting
experiment in how an actor with a legitimate authority over a
communication tool can take back the control over crowd-sourced
innovation.


2009/11/12 danah boyd <aoir.z3z at danah.org>:
> I share your disappointment.  Scott Golder, Gilad Lotan, and I investigated retweeting practices in the spring and summer and found a whole plethora of different practices that are not supported by this implementation.  We wrote this up in a HICSS paper that will be published and presented in January, but we've made a draft version available for those who want to know more about retweeting:
>
> Tweet, Tweet, Retweet: Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on Twitter
> danah boyd, Scott Golder, Gilad Lotan
> HICSS 2010
> http://www.danah.org/papers/TweetTweetRetweet.pdf
>
> Enjoy!
>
> danah
>
>
> On Nov 11, 2009, at 12:39 PM, Mary K. Bryson wrote:
>
>> RE: Why Retweet works the way it does
>>
>> http://evhead.com/2009/11/why-retweet-works-way-it-does.html
>> <BY: Evan Williams (born March 31, 1972) is an American entrepreneur who has
>> founded several Internet companies, including Pyra Labs (creator of
>> weblog-authoring software Blogger) and Twitter, of which he is currently
>> CEO.>
>>
>> I think it's interesting that Ev <creator of Twitter> misses the most valued
>> function of the retweet <to this user>, which is the linkage between the
>> retweeter and the original author of the RT tweet - the creator of Twitter's
>> new modification of retweet removes the citation factor - The current
>> Twitter syntax of say, Richard Smith retweeting something about surveillance
>> and blogging makes me follow a link about say, blogging, precisely because
>> Richard Smith is citing it. For the URL simply to appear in my InBox from ZX
>> would be meaningless. This is a good example of where a tool designer fails
>> to talk to users about what is good about the actual design and what would
>> then, be lost in the supposed "improvement".
>>
>> 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
>>
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