By making it easier to repeat a tweet than to comment on it, they discourage users from advancing a conversation.

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Twitter Watch: Twitter’s new retweet feature is the worst ever.

“Oh yeah, now I remember. Conversation - wherein a stranger hacks and mangles the already pithiest of statements in order to add the kind of discursive value only a few words of well-placed LOLspeak can bring to the table.” – texburgher

Yeah, because that’s the only way you’ve ever seen people interact on Twitter. Do you want your donation to Team Lucy Kate back?

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    nickdouglas Nick, unless you and I have radically different notions about what defines conversation, I don’t understand...
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  6. nickdouglas reblogged this from texburgher and added:
    table.” – texburgher Yeah, because that’s the only way you’ve ever seen people interact on Twitter. Do you want your...
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  8. nicolelee reblogged this from emptyage and added:
    Mat, you and I need to stop agreeing.

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