What a difference a day makes. Not 24 hours after rolling out its own method for retweeting messages, Twitter has pulled the new feature. Kenneth Corbin at InternetNews.com provides the details on the Twitter controversy.
That didn't take long.
Facing an unexpected wave of errors, Twitter has halted the roll-out of its controversial retweet feature. "We're working on a few problems related to the ongoing roll-out," the company said in an update to its status blog.
The sustained delay will no doubt be welcome news to many Twitter traditionalists, many of whom greeted the native retweet feature with unmasked hostility. Specifically, users were upset that the new feature didn't allow them to append comments to someone else's post they were passing along as a retweet.
Retweeting has become established as a staple of life on the micro-blogging site, but, until this week, it had been a manual process. Users could copy and paste the text of a tweet they wanted to pass along, adding the hashtag #RT to designate it as a retweet. Third-party Twitter clients had offered one-button retweeting, but with this week's rollout, Twitter began implementing the feature natively.
That update, posted late Wednesday afternoon, back-pedaled from an earlier note the company has posted addressing the snag, saying that the number of errors appeared to be returning to "more acceptable levels."
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