Neowin News Feed for: Retweet

Semiphemeral can scrub your old tweets, retweets, and likes in minutes

Paul Hill — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 15:16:01 +0000

This guide looks at getting started with Semiphemeral, a free tool that can help you remove your historical tweets, retweets, and likes. Flexible settings allow you to get set up to your liking. Read more...

Twitter PWA gets Birdwatch support, rolls back retweet experience changes, and more

Abhay V — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:26:01 +0000

Twitter has updated its progressive web app (PWA) with support for the new Birdwatch feature, DM request improvements, and more. The retweet button experience has also changed to its default. Read more...

Twitter stops prompting quote tweets, says most users didn't add much

João Carrasqueira — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 11:10:01 +0000

Twitter has put an end to its temporary measure of prompting quote tweets over typical retweets. While the number of quote tweets increased, 45% of users only wrote one word when using them. Read more...

Twitter's PWA gets updated with new retweet experience, improved settings

João Carrasqueira — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:02:01 +0000

Twitter has once again rounded up the latest changes made to its progressive web app over the past few weeks. These updates include a new retweet experience that promotes quote tweets. Read more...

Twitter finally announces that its new, longer tweets are live

Rich Woods — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:42:01 +0000

After announcing the new features back in May, Twitter has finally announced the rollout of its new character limits, which are that media attachments and Quote Tweets won't count toward them. Read more...

Twitter announces changes to tweets, making those 140 characters go a lot further

Andy Weir — Tue, 24 May 2016 14:44:01 +0000

Twitter will no longer count @names or media attachments as part of the 140-character limit; the '.@' requirement to reach all followers will be dropped; and users will be able to retweet themselves. Read more...

Twitter experiment treats favorited tweets like retweets

Steven Parker — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:39:45 +0000

Those pesky developers over at Twitter are playing around with a select base of user accounts yet again, treating favorited (or starred) tweets just like retweets! The horror, the horror..... Read more...

R.I.P. RT? Twitter toys with killing retweets in favour of 'Shares'

Andy Weir — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 04:20:18 +0000

Numerous Twitter users have, in recent days, reported that their retweet buttons have been replaced with the option to 'Share' tweets instead - could the days of the RT be numbered? Read more...

Woot! Oxford English Dictionary adds 400 new words

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:06:03 +0000

The Oxford English dictionary has added 400 new words, including woot, retweet, cyberbullying and sexting Read more...

Study: Mainstream media drives Twitter 'trends' says HP

Steven Parker — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:52:56 +0000

Despite what many might expect, a study conducted by Hewlett Packard reached the remarkable conclusion that mainstream media outlets, and not prolific tweeters, appear to dictate what topics trend on Twitter. "You might expect the most... Read more...