Sorry, I didn’t have my programmer hat on when I wrote my first comment. Now that’s fixed.

If they would block this, wouldn’t that immediately start a ‘censorship’ debate?

I cannot see them outright blocking tweets because it would, as you point out, start a censorship debate. Then again, if they are planning to start fighting fake retweets, something needs to be done to the “RT @username” and “via @username” tweets. If not, the problem remains.

The Official Retweet Option solves the retweet verification problem: the original tweet is kept intact (see screenshot #4) and I’m guessing the ID number of it is kept as a reference, just as with @replies. Hash of the retweet matches hash of the original.

The downside is that no comments / endorsements can be added to the original tweet and strange faces (people we are not following) will appear in our timeline, if someone we are following retweets. Biz says in Twitter blog: “Also, if you find my retweets annoying, then you’ll be able to turn them off.” That’s a good thing.

This new feature is called Official Retweet Option. “Option” in my books means optional. So, the question remains: what will happen to the old RT retweets? If nothing, how are they going to verify RT retweets that can be modified by the retweeter?

I also wonder if the good ole manual retweeting with RT will still be working.
If they would block this, wouldn’t that immediately start a ‘censorship’ debate?

I’m looking at the draft pic #3 (dialog “Retweet to your followers?”) and wondering if I get to edit the tweet before it’s sent (possibly adding a comment or something), or is it going to be sent down the wire right after hitting “Yes”.

I also wonder if the good ole manual retweeting with RT will still be working. Guess I’ll need to take a peek at the conversating in the dev group.

Tested Software dowloads

Although details haven’t been finalized yet, Evan Williams showed a sketch of the possible future integration, all while admitting that the users and the Twitter community basically decide what Twitter becomes.

Sure, so long as it’s what Twitter wanted to do also. How can he say something that laughable in the face of the @reply tracking fiasco? Twitter clearly did what Twitter wanted to do, not the “community” wanted.

Nice post, by the way.