Comments on: Slashtags: Adapting Twitter Culture to the New Retweet https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/12/02/slashtags-adapting-twitter-culture-to-the-new-retweet/ Useful Resources For Webmasters Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.42 By: Top 10 Reasons Why Skydiving Is Like Social Media (part 2) « Iron Mountain in a Concrete Jungle https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/12/02/slashtags-adapting-twitter-culture-to-the-new-retweet/#comment-10683 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:53:43 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2791#comment-10683 […] everyone (who tries at least) deserves. The “RT-culture” – as well as the adoption of the new RT feature – on Twitter showcases how far giving credit can go in the social media […]

]]> By: Matt https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/12/02/slashtags-adapting-twitter-culture-to-the-new-retweet/#comment-10517 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:28:11 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2791#comment-10517 I’d say it’s more like the chat commands in IRC, first-person-shooter games, or World of Warcraft. /dance, /ignore, etc.

]]> By: Matt https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/12/02/slashtags-adapting-twitter-culture-to-the-new-retweet/#comment-10516 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:27:23 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2791#comment-10516 1. It saves one of your precious 140 characters.

2. The slash concept allows for the /by and /cc things.

Other than that, it’s not really a new idea. The concept is the same, and one that I greatly endorse. The old “RT” needs to be abandoned as soon as possible to make things less confusing for everyone, and to make the great new features coming with Twitter’s new retweets work well.

]]> By: Matt https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/12/02/slashtags-adapting-twitter-culture-to-the-new-retweet/#comment-10515 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:23:45 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2791#comment-10515 That’s one of the major benefits of the new retweeting system. You can, on a user-by-user basis, opt to not see retweets. For example: If a few people you follow like to retweet @redwall_hp (which I encourage, of course ;) ) but you don’t ever want to see my tweets, you can choose to have my tweets not be displayed to you. It’s kind of like following/unfollowing, except you’re automatically “following” retweets by default.

]]> By: Sharon Hayes https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/12/02/slashtags-adapting-twitter-culture-to-the-new-retweet/#comment-10498 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:41:49 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2791#comment-10498 I’m not sure what is NEW about this idea? I almost always use via and reword things I pass along most of the time and have been doing so for a year.

]]> By: sixstarsnz https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/12/02/slashtags-adapting-twitter-culture-to-the-new-retweet/#comment-10497 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:19:12 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2791#comment-10497 RT is a good idea but maybe not for everyone all the time. Why not have a block RT’s button or a block RT’s setting in Twitter?

]]> By: Bay https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/12/02/slashtags-adapting-twitter-culture-to-the-new-retweet/#comment-10493 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:23:09 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2791#comment-10493 This Is starting to look like programming code or those HTML tags.

not sure that is a good thing

]]> By: Matt https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/12/02/slashtags-adapting-twitter-culture-to-the-new-retweet/#comment-10492 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:21:15 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2791#comment-10492 Well, a lot of people thought it was broken. (I’m kind of split on the matter.) Twitter can’t please everyone, and in the end there isn’t too much option but to go the direction they want.

My biggest problem is that Twitter is trying to move everyone toward the new retweets, but people using desktop/phone clients often can’t see or post them properly, so we have two groups of people doing different retweets. If I use the iPhone version of Tweetie, or Twitter.com, I can see all of the new-style retweets and post my own. But if I use the Mac version of Tweetie, I can’t see or create them. (And just imagine all of the other applications that haven’t updated yet!) It’s frustrating, and a bit confusing.

]]> By: Tamahome Jenkins https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/12/02/slashtags-adapting-twitter-culture-to-the-new-retweet/#comment-10487 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:54:54 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2791#comment-10487 I don’t like the new RT setup. I didn’t think anything was wrong with it before. I’m the type that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

]]> By: Jon Crim https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/12/02/slashtags-adapting-twitter-culture-to-the-new-retweet/#comment-10472 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:47:15 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2791#comment-10472 Great information!

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