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Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

Hom — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:02:39 -0000

Why is a little square the symbol for recycle?

Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

AlexSchleber — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:31:34 -0000

I'd add to that the fact that you'll have a heck of a time searching/sorting for it in queries, e.g. I use "psychology filter:link -RT" to get a "Psychology" listener RSS into a FriendFeed Room, minus the DUPLICATES from retweets.

Keep it simple, the one extra character won't restrain you as much as you think.

New Retweet Symbol = FAIL

What is much more important however is that Twitter add a "Retweet" button to their design, right there with the (largely unused by people) Favorite "star" symbol. Clicking should correctly pre-populate your status filed "RT @...: ...".

While at it, they should also make it so that "Favorite" pre-populates the Status field with: "FV: ..." + faved status text, or some such. As it is now, Favorite is used very little because it has no (visible) follow-up action. Hence people stay away from it.

Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

Alice — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:57:55 -0000

yeah sure. my mac does recognize it. and actually mac users are smarter cause they don't give a shit about the inner workings of their computer but simply use it (in creating great things). they're not acting like stupid nerds or byte fuckers.

Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

Daiv Russell — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:56:42 -0000

Well, for some reason, I can't type that character in TweetDeck, nor does it actually show up in my web browser? I'm thinking that the universality of text such as "RT" might be the reason it started and persists.

Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

artgrrl — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:46:42 -0000

still cannot see the new symbol on my Mac with an older Firefox, guess I stick to using RT

Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

David Petherick — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:20:02 -0000

EDIT: Just spotted @boris comment above, didn't see it in my browse through earlier.

So please ignore me. ;-)

Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

David Petherick — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:12:47 -0000

There's a neat browser shortcut, 'Twitterkeys' that links to a neat, 3-panel tool (just a small browser window) that shows a range of useful characters to copy and paste into twitter messages. Goes back to Septembe rlast year, too.

Created by @boris and the guys at The Next Web - http://twurl.nl/bbanlc

Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

Albert Willis — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:55:58 -0000

I agree with the folks who are saying we aren't really gaining anything by using the symbol, since it can't be sent via SMS and it requires three bytes (out of 140) instead of using RT, which is two bytes.

Isn't it time that retweeting take it's proper place as standard function, like replies via the @ symbol or direct messages? It should also be added to the Twitter API so all 3rd party clients can access this functionality.

Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

Kevin Lim — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:46:41 -0000

I remember replicating @iTod in using ♺ as RT last year. I've since abandoned it since it doesn't appear properly in different platforms.

Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

Chris Charabaruk — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:09:10 -0000

There's still the SMS issue. SMS is pretty much restricted to ASCII (ooooold).

Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

Vicki — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:04:01 -0000

This "dumb Mac user" can't see that character either. Don't blame the Mac. :)

Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

Vicki — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:03:46 -0000

That's not a recycle symbol. Or, at least, it sure looks like a '?' here in this web page. And therein lies the rub.

The problem with the fancy Unicode symbols is they don't necessarily work, either sending or receiving, for every Twitter client. AND this isn't necessarily "one character less than RT". Twitter already has a bug where it treats '>' as more than one character - and that's on most keyboards, at least in the US. I doubt the "recycle" symbol is on any keyboards. I can''t imagine what to press to get it.

Of course, it's easy to type a '?' but I'd probably ead that as "maybe @someone said".

Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

Peter Cooper — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:13:00 -0000

I've been doing this for a few months with ♻ - it's easier to read. That said, due to the lack of understanding I tend to put RT alongside anyway as it has become the convention.

Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

Boris — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:05:03 -0000

No actually I came up with the idea and then launched something called TwitterKeys:
http://thenextweb.com/2008/...

@Biz liked it, tweeted about it, then @ev tweeted it and then a lot of people started tweeting it! It made the front page of Digg and even Techcrunch:

http://thenextweb.com/2008/...

Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

Holger Nauheimer — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:18:14 -0000

With Power Twitter 1.02 (https://addons.mozilla.org/..., Windows Vista, the new sign works well

Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

Mack Male — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:35:05 -0000

What's wrong with RT? I see no benefits to this, aside from being one character shorter which isn't going to make a big difference. I admit that it isn't immediately clear what "RT" means, but it's certainly better than some odd character. If I just saw this character, I'd assume either the user entered something invalid or Twitter has a bug (I'm on XP and just see a bar).

Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

Gregory — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:25:59 -0000

how do you make the recycle symbol happen?

Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

Daniel J. Pritchett — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:08:40 -0000

Edit: undeletable dupe.

Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

Daniel J. Pritchett — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:07:24 -0000

Same here! Have a screenshot of the image fail on XP. I've got Unicode turned on in FireFox but for whatever reason XP doesn't have the right character to render.

Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

davidgs — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:19:22 -0000

I've been using this symbol for retweets for months. Love it. Picked it up from somewhere ...

I even asked the developer of iTweet.net (a killer twitter interface, which has a "ReTweet" button) to start using it, which I think he may.

Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

scy — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:09:06 -0000

You may read why this symbol is FAIL on my blog: http://scytale.name/blog/20...

Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

Paul Stamatiou — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:56:37 -0000

Interesting symbol to use for RT's.. unfortunately TweetDeck doesn't accept this. :-/

Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

scy — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:37:52 -0000

Too bad that this is actually one byte MORE than "RT", because it's a Unicode character, and its UTF-8 representation are the three bytes 0xe299ba. And, you know, even if Twitter says "140 characters", it's actually "140 bytes (butthewebinterfacecountscharacters, andanglebracketscountas4bytes)". That being said, the character is not available in SMS, except when you use Unicode messages, but then each SMS has, iirc, 70 instead of 160 characters. Plus, you mobile phone's font will most likely not have the character available at all.

Consider this idea dead on arrival. Its advantages are zero, except for maybe looking 1337. (Or, if you want, like another dumb Mac user who doesn't care about compatibility and has no idea of the internal workings of a computer.)

Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

Jackson Miller — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:49:33 -0000

What about SMS?

Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

John Zeratsky — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:29:43 -0000

Can you send ♺ in an SMS? And how do you enter it on a phone?