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Twitter just fixed the biggest problem with retweets

This was a long time coming.

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Twitter is rolling out an update to its quote-retweet feature that makes the process of sharing someone else’s 140-character message easier and cleaner.

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The feature adds a second way of retweeting to the Twitter website and dramatically improves the existing quote feature in the iOS and Android apps.

https://twitter.com/twitter/status/585225218093932544

On the Web, the feature looks like this.

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Eric Geller

Eric Geller

In the iOS app, the improvement is obvious.

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Twitter’s support page for retweets notes, somewhat confusingly, that “you cannot Retweet your own quote Tweet.”

The Next Web reports that Twitter’s API will add support for the quote-retweet in the future, meaning that, unlike other Twitter updates like group DMs, the quote-retweet shouldn’t be missing from third-party apps for much longer.

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