Twitter: Project Retweet in Phase One Status

Posted by Michael Duvall in Twitter on Aug 13th, 2009 | one response

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Many people have often suggested that Twitter should put a reTweet Button or link on posts to enable users to pass along information in a more efficient manner. Effective today phase one of Project Rewteet has officially been announced on Twitters blog.

What does Phase one mean of project Retweet?

So far it includes an announcement of the project. Later the developers will get to beat around an improved API (Application Programming Interface) that includes the Retweet feature. Next they will release the feature to a subset of the Twitterverse, do some testing, make changes if needed and then (finally) we will all get to use it. Makes me kinda of wonder what happened to the Authenticate user project, has it been scraped?

Why give it to the Developers first?

Simply because this is the way Apple did it with their 3.0 release of the iPhone OS.
Kidding of course, The rational behind this decision appears to be due to the fact that they do not want to release a new feature of Twitter without giving developers a chance to prep their applications first. Just throwing a new feature out there without giving developers time to adjust their apps would not only raise some questions about Twitter’s ethics- it may cause them to loose some valuable users as well.

Twitter was also kind enough to post a high res version of the project using the latest in graphic art software… the notepad and pen.