Technology Review: The Evolution of Retweeting

Twitter has announced that a user-generated communication technique called
retweeting–reposting someone else’s message, similar to quoting–will be
formally incorporated into Twitter.

Very interesting article on social networking. Don’t miss the linked paper on the behavior of retweeting by Danah Boyd, Microsoft research. (http://www.danah.org/papers/TweetTweetRetweet.pdf)