One of the neat things that has really driven Twitter is how it has grown organically, with many features being taken directly from the community. For example, hashtags were originally used as a community-based convention in order to tag a tweet for easier searching, but when they took on a life of their own, Twitter made them official by turning them into links.
Twitter Lists, which were rolled out last month, has been one of the most requested features for a while now. With many other Twitter clients like TweetDeck supporting Twitter groups, it was only a matter of time before Twitter rolled out some type of official grouping. And, in typical Twitter fashion, they enabled individual lists to be followed.
Now comes Twitter retweets, with Project Retweet being rolled out as we speak. The rollout consists of adding profiles in bunches, so not everyone can retweet, but as they add more users, it should cover everyone in the coming weeks. The Retweet link will be located right beside the Reply link, which appears when you hover your mouse over an individual tweet.
Retweets will have their own icon, will show how many people retweeted the message and will even allow your to undo your retweet if you made a mistake and retweeted the wrong message.
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