The Facebook Re-Tweet
Jan 17th, 2010 | By Josh Camson | Category: Facebook, FeaturedThe re-tweet is an enormous part of the Twitter experience. Even before official support for the feature from Twitter, people were constantly re-tweeting status updates, links, photos, etc. This allowed Twitter users to see content recommended to them by people they followed, which they may not have originally found. Further, it allowed the person sharing the information to give credit where credit was due: the original user.
Facebook now supports a similar feature. Currently, the feature is limited to shared links. When a user shares a link, you can now click the “Share” button and post that same link in your activity stream, with attribution to the original author person you share from.
I tried to share something that Person X had posted via Person Y, but only Person X shows up in the “via” area. I’m sure this is something that will be available eventually.
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