Twitter’s New RT has a dirty little secret
I don’t use Twitter’s new RT feature. I just don’t. Sometimes I want to add a comment before or after a tweet, or shorten it.
But once in a while I use it out of convenience, when I’m browsing the Twitter website.
I did this on @richardroeper‘s feed, retweeting his information about his new book. Well, when something is new-RT’ed, it shows up who retweeted it on your timeline:
But when you go to hover over the “you” in that “Retweeted by you,” you’re presented with Twitter’s latest feature/bug.
It shows you pop-up information for user @you. Clicking the text in “Retweeted by you” will bring you to your own timeline, while clicking “you” in the pop-up takes you to @you’s profile.
How completely pointless.
When you hover over something tweeted by someone else, the feature works properly.:
