Retweets are back to standard and Twitter customers could not be happier. Earlier this year, microblogging platform Twitter changed its retweeting method, displaying customers the ‘Quote Tweet’ prompt when they attempted to retweet a post. The new method encouraged customers to quote tweets and add their personal comments, rather than basically ‘retweeting’ or sharing a person else’s post. The transform was initial implemented in October ahead of the US Presidential Election and drew a fair bit of criticism from customers, but it has now been reversed.
In a statement released at the time, Twitter had mentioned they hoped the new retweeting guidelines would “increase the likelihood that people add their own thoughts, reactions and perspectives to the conversation”.
“We don’t believe that this happened, in practice,” Twitter admitted in a series of tweets shared Thursday. “The use of Quote Tweets increased, but 45% of them included single-word affirmations and 70% had less than 25 characters.”
The firm is now altering retweets back to the way they had been in a move that has been warmly welcomed by customers. News of the reversal has led to a quantity of memes and jokes flooding the microblogging platform. Take a appear at the funniest memes welcoming the transform in retweets:
“We did it Joe, ITS BACK… we’re gonna be able to retweet post like normal again!” pic.twitter.com/Onni8vdYRT
— Josh Mitchell (@Oh_My_Josh69) December 17, 2020
Back to utilizing Twitter with out several fingers just to retweet. We won pic.twitter.com/rtaZ35S4E5
— SnoFall ????❄️ (@LunarSnow1) December 17, 2020
The demand for an edit button has nevertheless not been met
you listened to the people today now continue listening and add the edit button pic.twitter.com/rsHGZaDf4h
— CoffeeMaestro (@coffeemaestro_) December 16, 2020
Here’s how Twitter customers reacted
Everyone on Twitter right after obtaining out the retweet button is back pic.twitter.com/pazlkXfVSj
— Uncle Drew © (@UncleDrewGB) December 17, 2020
twitter customers when they see the retweet button is back pic.twitter.com/lXaqI9eJlW
— kieran (@imkierantiu) December 17, 2020
Artists on Twitter had been amongst these most vocal in criticism of the quote-tweet method, claiming that quote-tweeting took consideration away from their artwork. Take a appear at how they welcomed the rule reversal:
is the old way to retweet tweets freed once more? can artists ultimately come back?
here’s my pikachu as a metaphor to test this pic.twitter.com/oucko603bu
— TAHK0 ☕️ (@TAHK0) December 17, 2020
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