I just signed into the GearDiarySite Twitter account to find that it’s been added to Twitter’s new Retweet to Share Tweets beta group. What does that mean exactly? It’s actually a pretty cool new feature.

As explained in the Twitter Blog:

We’re still working out the final details, but this sketch gives you the basic idea. Let’s say you follow @jessverr, @biz (that’s me), and @gregpass but you don’t follow @ev. However, I do follow @ev and the birth of his baby boy was so momentous that I retweeted it to all my followers.

Note “retweeted by” attribution and “retweet” option.

Imagine that my simple sketch is your Twitter timeline. You’d see @ev’s tweet even though you don’t follow him because you follow me and I really wanted you to have the information that I have. (The star, reply, and retweet options only show up when you hover over a row on Twitter.com which is why you don’t see them all the time.) Also, if you find my retweets annoying, then you’ll be able to turn them off.

Now if I could just get this feature on my personal account – that’s where I do most of my retweeting!

Are you in the beta? Have you tried it? Do you like it?

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