Twitter officially lets you retweet with comments now

Twitter revamped its retweet feature on Monday, making it easier for users to plug other people's tweets and add commentary of their own.

Retweeting was a more tedious process until now if folks wanted to comment on a link. You either manually copied and pasted the link into a fresh tweet, or if you wanted to offer more context, copy-pasted a tweet's original text into a new tweet with a comment shoehorned in — so long as you stuck to that 140 character limit.

See also: Twitter Testing Ways to Add Commentary to Retweets

But this latest approach lets you skip all that copy-pasting nonsense, prompting you now for a pithy remark before hitting the Retweet button, like so: Read more...

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