Comments on: My Take on the New Twitter Retweet Button (Screencast) http://demogirl.com/2009/11/11/my-take-on-the-new-twitter-retweet-button-screencast/ Tech Support Costs A lot. So get Rid of it with the DemoGirl Tech Support Solution. Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:15:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Sheree Motiska http://demogirl.com/2009/11/11/my-take-on-the-new-twitter-retweet-button-screencast/comment-page-1/#comment-1624 Sheree Motiska Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:04:47 +0000 http://demogirl.com/?p=1728#comment-1624 I agree with the bit about the added text on RTs. How many times have you Rted something and left a comment, only to confuse everyone other than who the comment was for? Plus, I always got people thinking that RTs were something I said (like if they were new and didn't know what RT meant). Then it seems like these poor Twitter Newbies start feeling scared thinking they just broke a sacred Twitter law and they're facing the Twitter Inquisition. That's how Twitter "guide to Twitter rules and follower count hierarchies" and "how to Tweet for profit" has made it for people who haven't yet had a chance to look around, get a few clues on how to smoothly enter, and see for themselves just how fun and powerful Twitter really is. The point is this... I LOVE you guys and your simplistic, matter of fact, "this is how this works, we don't have anything else (political) to say about this tool. We are just showing you how it works, you guys do with it whatever you see fit." It's so great, so perfect. Do you sell your videos for use in courses or even as a handout type of thing for an e-class? I have been updating my SMM Academy core stuff in between other projects forever. I'd love to just knock some of these great little new tools like that List service I just saw on the blog and Pingg. I really don't have the time and neither do my students to always have to wait whenever there is something I have to investigate in the web 2.0 tools frontier. I would probably hire someone like you guys to keep ME updated on the most promising new tools, services, features, etc. and make some of these short screen captures that make it real easy for a newbie to know why they would want to use it and how to use it most effectively. I don't know, maybe you guys might want to hear what it actually is that I'm about, I'd want to know a bit more about you, but at least I could get started sharing you girls with those who I know would really enjoy your explanations. @Web20Empire I agree with the bit about the added text on RTs. How many times have you Rted something and left a comment, only to confuse everyone other than who the comment was for? Plus, I always got people thinking that RTs were something I said (like if they were new and didn’t know what RT meant).

Then it seems like these poor Twitter Newbies start feeling scared thinking they just broke a sacred Twitter law and they’re facing the Twitter Inquisition.

That’s how Twitter “guide to Twitter rules and follower count hierarchies” and “how to Tweet for profit” has made it for people who haven’t yet had a chance to look around, get a few clues on how to smoothly enter, and see for themselves just how fun and powerful Twitter really is.

The point is this…

I LOVE you guys and your simplistic, matter of fact, “this is how this works, we don’t have anything else (political) to say about this tool. We are just showing you how it works, you guys do with it whatever you see fit.”

It’s so great, so perfect. Do you sell your videos for use in courses or even as a handout type of thing for an e-class? I have been updating my SMM Academy core stuff in between other projects forever. I’d love to just knock some of these great little new tools like that List service I just saw on the blog and Pingg.

I really don’t have the time and neither do my students to always have to wait whenever there is something I have to investigate in the web 2.0 tools frontier. I would probably hire someone like you guys to keep ME updated on the most promising new tools, services, features, etc. and make some of these short screen captures that make it real easy for a newbie to know why they would want to use it and how to use it most effectively.

I don’t know, maybe you guys might want to hear what it actually is that I’m about, I’d want to know a bit more about you, but at least I could get started sharing you girls with those who I know would really enjoy your explanations.

@Web20Empire

]]> By: Kristen http://demogirl.com/2009/11/11/my-take-on-the-new-twitter-retweet-button-screencast/comment-page-1/#comment-1623 Kristen Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:57:05 +0000 http://demogirl.com/?p=1728#comment-1623 Just a note on why adding text to an RT can be important: commenting. Whether you disagree rabidly or agree wholeheartedly with a statement, being able to comment on it in the content you're sharing with your followers is important. Sure, you can comment in a follow-up tweet, but that can get lost. Especially with 3rd party apps, (yes, they do drop tweets, but the trade-off is a functionality that outstrips Twitter's site by a mile.) As for complete text, Tweetdeck has a, "reference," function that gives a short url to original tweet, and leaves plenty of room for comment. In-line comments on a tweet would be a great feature on either Twitter or in a 3rd party app. Also, the retweets made with the Twitter RT feature do not show up in clients at all. This seems odd. Just a note on why adding text to an RT can be important: commenting. Whether you disagree rabidly or agree wholeheartedly with a statement, being able to comment on it in the content you’re sharing with your followers is important. Sure, you can comment in a follow-up tweet, but that can get lost. Especially with 3rd party apps, (yes, they do drop tweets, but the trade-off is a functionality that outstrips Twitter’s site by a mile.) As for complete text, Tweetdeck has a, “reference,” function that gives a short url to original tweet, and leaves plenty of room for comment. In-line comments on a tweet would be a great feature on either Twitter or in a 3rd party app. Also, the retweets made with the Twitter RT feature do not show up in clients at all. This seems odd.

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