Yesterday, when I logged in to Twitter. I got a pop-up that “You are a part of twitter beta group who will receive retweet in a new way!”

I was excited to see this new feature from Twitter. Twitter has just activated the retweet button on a small number of accounts, according to a blog post.

Unlike in past, Now Twitter has built its own mechanism to check for duplicate tweets into the API. This will ensure that only the first tweet is shown and the retweets go under it automatically.

Here’s the text from Twitter’s post today:

“We’ve just activated a feature called retweet on a very small percentage of accounts in order to see how it works in the wild. Retweet is a button that makes forwarding a particularly interesting tweet to all your followers very easy. In turn, we hope interesting, newsworthy, or even just plain funny information will spread quickly through the network making its way efficiently to the people who want or need to know.

You may remember that we shared the mechanics of this feature with developers a while back so they could think about how to work it into Twitter apps. Now we’re ready to start trying it on Twitter. The plan is to see how it goes first with this small release. If it needs more work, then we’ll know right away. If things look good, we’ll proceed with releasing the feature in stages eventually arriving at 100%”

So now for retweeting any info, I don’t have to install 3rd party script . I get default retweet option below all tweets. Like shown in below image:

After I retweet, it looks something like this:

P.S.: For all twitters who doesn’t have this beta version will see this retweets in normal RT format.

Thanks twitter for considering me in this beta version.

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