Why would Twitter redesign the interface to force users toward an inbuilt, attribution free, ³integrated retweeting²? A list member who emailed me offlist suggested that conversations with other programmers indicated that Twitter wants to streamline the syntax of (re)tweets so as to permit easier quantification, and therein, comparative stats on ³most popular² tweets, lists and so on... The CNET story seems to lead in that direction: ³But there are advantages, too: with built-in retweets, it gets much easier to track exactly how popular or influential a given message or user is.² Maybe machine-enabled collective intelligence is just not really brandable in a neoliberal economistic -scape? TG for those late-night poutine carts though! Mary -- Dr. Mary K. Bryson, Professor and Director, Network of Centers and Institutes in Education (NCIE) & Center for Cross-Faculty Inquiry (CCFI), Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia Archive: http://ubc.academia.edu/MaryKBryson CCFI: Innovation Works Here http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/
From: live <human.factor.one@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:06:27 -0800 To: List Aoir <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Twitter Re-Design
Yeah....things didn't go as well at they wanted on release. The UX engineer lives in my town, and well, word spreads over late night poutine carts.
Also from CNET: "Twitter issues mulligan on new 'retweet' feature" http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10395812-36.html
-Sharon
@SharonG
On Nov 11, 2009, at 8:41 PM, Mary K. Bryson wrote:
The blog that I was quoting from concerning the redesign, was published yesterday, and is written by Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter, announcing that: This week on Twitter, we're rolling a feature we've been working on for a while out to a lot more users. (If you don't have it yet, you will soon.) That feature is our native version of Retweet, which Biz posted <http://blog.twitter.com/2009/08/project-retweet-phase-one.html> about on the Twitter blog a couple months ago.
http://evhead.com/2009/11/why-retweet-works-way-it-does.html
Seems like a done deal.
Cheers,
Mary -- Dr. Mary K. Bryson, Professor and Director, Network of Centers and Institutes in Education (NCIE) & Center for Cross-Faculty Inquiry (CCFI), Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia Archive: http://ubc.academia.edu/MaryKBryson
CCFI: Innovation Works Here http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/
From: live <human.factor.one@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:34:34 -0800 To: Mary Bryson <mary.bryson@ubc.ca> Cc: danah boyd <aoir.z3z@danah.org>, <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Twitter Re-Design
By the by - Rael said that they've pulled back the deployment of this feature redesign. Apparently there were some technical difficulties. So retweet design is on hold for the time being. Hopefully while they figure out the backend issues, they can also rethink the design strategy.
Sharon Greenfield Digital Ethnographer @SharonG
On Nov 11, 2009, at 7:58 PM, Mary K. Bryson wrote:
Thanks for sending this fabulous paper, danah -
Danah + colleagues' paper provides lots of really good examples that underscore the socio-cultural complexities of retweeting - and to the point here, specifically what will be lost in Twitter's own redesign of the RT syntax. Twitters redesigned syntax -- Described here -- http://evhead.com/2009/11/why-retweet-works-way-it-does.html
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