I've never used "via". Is there a symbol for it? Couldn't you use some sort of a filter to pick out the RTs from people you follow. This might work in TweetDeck if you played with columns and filters.
D. On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Anne Kathrine Petteroe <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > we (=the Norwegians on twitter) had a very interesting discussion about the > retweet format today, RT and via. > When do people use RT and when do they use via? > > RT is used when you like a tweet and want to share it with your followers. > Pretty much the same as favouriting it. Often only copy-paste. > Via is used when you edit the content of the tweet, ie. adding value. > > One guy had a good idea, what if favourties was a separate stream, just > like replies and DMs. > This stream would contain the favourites (or RTs if you'd like) of the > people you follow. > I could easily imagine this a great source to share wisdom and links, and > wonder if this is something we should bring into ESME? > > What do you think? > > /Anne > > > >
