Twitter has slowly accumulated features over the years by looking at how people are using the service. At-replies, hashtags, and retweets were all unofficial features before the company added them to ...

Recent election-related updates to Twitter's retweet function are causing some confusion on the social media platform. Credit: Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images There seems to be ...

The man who invented Twitter's "retweet" button now believes it was a very bad idea. In an interview with BuzzFeed News, developer Chris Wetherell said he recalls thinking, "We might have just handed ...

Retweeting is like a using a tiny, powerful printing press. Retweets, or the sharing of other people’s tweets on Twitter, have made Twitter’s use vastly more complex than when the network was founded.

In the realm of communications, there are few things that one can do that can convey so much meaning, yet require so little effort. Add a simple "RT" to a tweet, or hit the little retweet button in ...