Twitter’s 'Quote Tweet' revamp leaves more room for your thoughts<article>
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<p>Twitter is overhauling its “Quote Tweet” button, and in doing so could change the way we use the social network.</p><p>Instead of just wrapping the original tweet in quotes, as the Quote Tweet button used to do, Twitter’s iOS app now embeds a link to the original tweet. This leaves room for up to 116 characters of additional comments from the person making the quotation,
The Next Web reports.</p><p>Users can already embed a tweet this way by manually pasting in the link, but this was a cumbersome process that users tended to avoid. Likewise, the Quote Tweet button never got much traction, as users often stuck with “manual retweets” (that is, writing their own comments and “RT” before the original tweet) when adding commentary.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2906764/twitters-quote-tweet-revamp-leaves-more-room-for-your-thoughts.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Twitter’s 'Quote Tweet' revamp leaves more room for your thoughts
