Twitter already offers the retweet with comment function in its apps
The social network Twitter has not always offered the best features in its applications mobile phones, or on their web Proof of this is the large number of clients or unofficial applications that have sprung up around these 140 characters, offering functions such as being able to schedule tweetsor messages, mute certain users without unfollowing them, sort content according to various criteria or even share ratings and commentsof other tweets.However, now the official applications go a step further and introduce a new convenient feature to share someone else's tweet or message
This is the option to add a comment to a retweet That is, share a message from another user account through the own timeline or chronology and, incidentally, add a comment or assessment that helpscontextualize, clarify or offer your own vision of the published content. Something that avoids having to publish several messages after doing a retweet to use to explain the reason for said action. A complete convenience to make an opinion public, criticize it or simply share it with a new nuance of your own.
At the moment this function of retweeting with comment, which Twitterstarted experimenting this past summer, it's now available for iPhone and on web , having to wait a little longer to receive the news also on the Android platform, where it will arrive soon according to those responsible.Thus, it is possible to avoid copying and pasting the tweet that you want to comment on in a new message, something that significantly reduced the number of characters remaining to comment.
Just select the classic Retweet icon, represented by a pair of arrows The difference is that now the option is offered to comment or quote said tweet In this way the user has nothing less than 116 extra characters to provide an assessment of the original tweet. Whether it's a comment to explain where it comes from, why you post it, or how to understand it. The point is that this extra space offers many possibilities that beforecould only be known with new tweets, which were not always read together with the retweeted message.
Obviously, although for the stars of this social network it can be a cheap shot, it is not possible to retweet and quote your own messageSomething that is sometimes used to remember information or a comment, but that cannot be used if it is the user who wrote it. Also, keep in mind that this retweet with comment will always be shown to followers as a quoted tweet , where it is possible to see the user's comment and, one level below, the original tweet that has been shared with the rest of the contacts.
In short, a function long awaited by regular users of the official application, but that the most astute have already been enjoying for some time through the unofficial customers In any case, the new feature has started to be available in the application for iOS , which can be downloaded free via App StoreAlso coming to the Android mobile app via Google Play soon.
