The social Web has really redefined the Web in a way that we haven’t really seen since the onset of online search. People are using their online friends to find information online and as a filter to what is and isn’t important.
Twitter has really established itself as a popular townsquare. This is a venue where people come together to share their status, thoughts, and cool things they find.
It’s a platform for sharing.
My buddy Shel wrote a really cool post about a phenomenom that we’re seeing crop up… retweeting. It’s where one person shares a cool link or insight on Twitter and then someone sees that and ones to share that tweet in it’s entirety with their friends.
Retweeting allows thoughts to be shared from one group of people to another and maybe to another. This gives my thoughts and ideas or maybe the thoughts of others that I want to share a potentially endless reach and the ability to reach audiences that they would’ve never otherwise gotten to.
What’d be cool if they created an interface element within Twitter that’d make it be easier to retweet something, like they currently have for favoriting and replying.
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