I can safely assume that you are a Twitter user, most of our readers are. Irregardless of how many people who you follow, a large number of your incoming tweets are retweets. These tweets begin “RT @someonedull” and continue with a recycled tweet.

Everyone uses Twitter differently, some people preferring to follow a large number of people, and some like myself who do not. A retweeted tweet is supposed to be something of importance. That is, interesting enough to pass along.

I agree that there are tweets of such interest. However, (watching my @ influx on TweetDeck), I think now that the noise coming from @ tagged retweets is going to gag the use of Twitter somewhat.

If I post something, and it gets eight retweets and a comment, the comment often gets lost. In it being lost, I cannot find the person that wanted to discuss what is at hand.

Also, when a retweet is tagged with someone else’s name (the original tweeter, or perhaps the last two), the conversation is recycled backwards to the original poster. This centralizes the conversation, and cuts out people ‘down