Recently heard that twitter is changing its homepage and someone also tossed this news that they are going to revamp it big time. I think now I know what is coming. Twitter is introducing this RT button for the people to retweet the tweets from their timeline straight from the WEB interface. All the desktop clients and other Twitter services certainly support this RT feature but the twitter.com itself was missing this functionality.
My friend did not use any sort of Plugin,addon, instead she claims to have this by default. Still if you want the RT button on your twitter page before twitter.com actually integrates it, read this post -” Add power to twitter web using Firefox” or install an addon called called Power Twitter for firefox. Thanks to ProSam for leaving the information in the comment.
One of my friend Kanika Seth is the first one to experience this, here is the screen-shot which she took outta all controversies.
However this RT button looks little absurd, so I am not sure if this the one they are going to make it live. At first I thought some written RT in photoshop, but since @mekkanikal confirmed it, I think its the genuine screenshot.
You, I and everyone else atleast retweets 1-10 tweets in a day, so its an essential functionality which twitter never thought would be so famous. For those who keep accessing twitter from different machines do no usually use desktop clients and solely use the twitter’s web interface. However there is another web interface called Seesmic Web which gives a desktop like interface right in your browser. But if you want to stick to twitter.com without trying anything new, its a good news for you.
Please leave a comment if you see something similar to this.
Stay Digified !!
Sachin Khosla
The fact that the “RT” seems to be reaching over the line below it screams “shopped”.
Could be wrong.
That looks a lot like the RT button Power Twitter, a firefox plugin, adds to your twitter stream. See it here: http://clip2net.com/clip/m7120/1248646303-clip-99kb.jpg
At first It also seemed to me as if It is written by someone in Photoshop, But my question is that, why am I not getting this RT button???
neither i have seen one anywhere else except on this page.
Realin, did you noticed one?
Yeah guys even I am wondering as twitter blog has no information regarding this .. Probably its an hoax just before the real thing
Hey guys.. I haven’t installed any plugin and only use the twitter web UI as it is. And I didn’t photoshop it either! That RT link comes and goes.. let’s see what twitter is upto! They really do need that feature in the web UI.
And whenever I click that RT link, it opens up a new window with the tweet ready to RT.
This will be a good change as I want to get rid of Power Twitter as it is slowing down the page.
And LOL I just noticed a tweet by me is in that image =P
yeah definitely we want the “Change” the obama way !!
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