Project Retweet Beta Widens

-11 Points

Thousands of Twitter users logged on to the Twitter website today to discover that they had become, as if by magic, suddenly included in the ever-widening Project Retweet beta, which is Twitter's attempt to build retweets into the native architecture of Twitter. As with previous features like Lists, users who logged into Twitter via the Twitter.com website saw a message appearing above their timeline, explaining that they had been included in the beta. Additionally, users who actually had a new Project Retweet retweet in their timeline saw an additional box explaining why that tweet...

Project Retweet Arrives on Twitter - Sort Of

28 Points

It's been quite some time since we head from Twitter about the status of the much-anticipated "Project Retweet," Twitter's plan to build Retweets into the Twitter architecture, as opposed to the homespun Retweet solutions people are currently using. Then, last week, we received the news we've all been waiting for - Project Retweet has launched!

Sort of.

According to Twitter's most recent blog post about Project Retweet, the retweet feature has been launched to a limited section of the Twitter populace - meaning that it's essentially in a widening beta-test at...