Danah, Great article! Missed my T Station stop while reading it. @bacigalupe Message: 1 Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:15:44 -0500 From: danah boyd <aoir.z3z@danah.org> To: "Mary K. Bryson" <mary.bryson@ubc.ca> Cc: Subject: Re: [Air-L] Twitter Re-Design Message-ID: <C6A56100-4E76-4280-A1AF-D31EBC68D084@danah.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I share your disappointment. Scott Golder, Gilad Lotan, and I investigated retweeting practices in the spring and summer and found a whole plethora of different practices that are not supported by this implementation. We wrote this up in a HICSS paper that will be published and presented in January, but we've made a draft version available for those who want to know more about retweeting: Tweet, Tweet, Retweet: Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on Twitter danah boyd, Scott Golder, Gilad Lotan HICSS 2010 http://www.danah.org/papers/TweetTweetRetweet.pdf