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BREAKING: Twitter Announces Project Retweet

Source: Mashable!

Aug 13, 2009

Summary

Twitter just announced “Project Retweet”, on both its blog and on the developer group API. Specifically, they’re launching phase 1 one of the project.

Wait, what’s Project Retweet, you ask? While the entire plan’s not out yet, it looks like phase on is a Retweet API for developers, which marks the first time that Twitter has made the retweet a supported feature of Twitter. Here’s what Twitter said on the Development Talk page:

“So soon [the retweet's] going to become a natively supported feature on twitter.com. It’s looking like we’re only weeks away from being ready to launch it on our end. We wanted to show the community of platform developers the API we’ve cooked up for retweeting so those who want to support it in their applications would have enough time to have it ready by launch day.”

The retweet will be part of the new home timeline and it will be visually different from regular tweets. And here’s a screenshot: