We had recently reported that Twitter is in plans to allow the retweet functionality for its users on its site.
Well, looks like its finally here. I had a pleasant surprise today when I logged into my twitter account to find out I was part of the beta testing group to receive this feature.
However, there is a catch. Twitter will be allowing you to retweet only from those users whom you follow. I believe this is quite a disadvantage when compared to more efficient tools such as Tweetdeck which gives the freedom to retweet posts from any user.
Anyways, it would be a good start to have this feature up and running. Hopefully, Twitter will lift the restrictions it is laying currently.
Also, Twitter will be carrying out a maintenance window today which might result in a downtime of the website. You will find interesting statistics on the history of the uptime of the twitter website on pingdom.
