New! Twitter’s Retweet Feature (BETA)

Twitter just launched its new “retweet” feature in limited beta rollout. Below is the screenshot of the feature when first enabled in my Twitter account. As mentioned in Twitter’s recent blog post “Retweet is a button that makes forwarding a particularly interesting tweet to all your followers very easy. In turn, we hope interesting, newsworthy, or even just plain funny information will spread quickly through the network making its way efficiently to the people who want or need to know.”

There is a handy new icon that shows if a tweet was retweeted. There is also a new link in your right hand navigation menu called “Retweets”. This is a simple feature upgrade but one that was long overdue. Now retweeting is a one click process. Click the image below to see a larger screenshot of the welcome screen as the feature is enabled in your Twitter account.

One other cool point to note, at this time, you only see the RT icon from other users who are part of the BETA. Kinda neat to see a mix of old and new RT formats in your thread and see who the beta was enabled for.