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nein - Allen Stern

Yes I have it on a couple of accounts. - Matt G

not yet - Kim Landwehr

I see it on mine now, and realize I have not been ReTweeted, yet. - Rubin

I too have the new retweet feature. :) - Ashish

On my work account, yes. Haven't checked my personal one yet today. - Laura Norvig

Yes I have it... - Richard Walker

I like the fact that the tweet is still FROM the original person, with a "retweeted by" underneath. Good for "discovery." - Richard Walker

Have it, but it's not clear how its collecting this information or for how long now. - 3Cinteractive®, L.L.C. from twhirl

From the man himself: http://evhead.com/2009... - Son of Groucho

I have it! :) - Francesco M.

Yes and I like it! - tab

Yep! And I also really like it. - joey

Nope. - Kol Tregaskes

Yes, it is back again. - Jemm

Nope... but it had one hell of a CSS problem just a minute ago.... - .LAG liked that

I like the retweet page. The retweets in my normal feed I'm not so sure if I like - Tamara

mine is there. - Nathalie

yes, since nov 10 - the retweet feature was temporarily disabled last week but it's finally back! - Barbara R. S.

Yes - Bertrand Doux

One of my accounts does. My main account does not. :( - Otto

Mine does! :) It is awesome. - Jorge Escobar

Have it but doesn't appear to function if viewing tweets within a list. - Dana Fosburgh

Have #NewRTs back on as well, still don't like them -> http://bit.ly/wTX4b I'll have to make a mock-up of what the feature should have looked like. - Alex Schleber

it does indeed - i'm liking it - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

it does-but im not sure why they didnt let us make comments- thats the good stuff - Elizabeth Beskin

Follow Friday is spam. It deserves to die and is useless in today's world. - Robert Scoble

#FollowFriday is like an activity that can recognize Twitter followers who may not be as well known, but still have something to contribute. - jacky

jacky: I don't think it does that at all. You should see all the people who follow friday me and Arrington. - Robert Scoble

LOL, can only imagine what a timeline w/ 100k followers doing follow friday would look like! - jacky

It would be nice to tweet @ a group - Rubin

Actually, no it wouldn't. It would invite spam. And one thing that makes Twitter different is you can control who appears on your screen. - Robert Scoble

You can on Facebook :-), to an extent. Right now it includes all the networks you belong to with it, which sucks. - Jesse Stay

The advantage of being able to do that on Facebook is that the relationship is 2-way, so spam is near impossible. - Jesse Stay

Another way you could do it on Facebook is tag a Facebook Page, and it appears on that Page's wall if the admin has configured it to be allowed. - Jesse Stay

İnteresting..! I think Google Reader is very usefull app - ★ Soner Gönül

Can't wait to get the Lists feature enabled! Very good post! - Gerardo Capetillo

Adopting Twitter for news reading is a huge commitment to read instantly all news (bc they don't archive, right?). It's insane ... But yes gReader is too heavy. - N.G. Gordon - RadarSync from iPod

I just don't understand how you process all those tweets per day. I'm sure lists make it easier. Personally, I like the static nature of Google Reader because I can quickly scan folders by date-time or feed and then mark things with a star if I want to read them later, quick notes on shared items, etc. And of course all the shared stories post here on FriendFeed then Twitter. Normally I keep FF up all day but just began with threadsy and I confess it's got me looking at my Twitter stream MUCH more. - Ankush Narula

What about using feedly, Robert?? - Roberto Bonini

but even on twitter you must be missing things - ffcode

funny... cause i still read your blogs in reader... its got its place... tracking rss feeds from youtube, photography sites etc etc etc... if people want to follow what you write, you should not have to write your blog AND post the link to twitter... redundant! and will make twitter even noiser! why not let people pull at their leisure... the two things are for different times of the... more... - simran

i am still wondering how can you read so many tweets and then those links to articles wow - ffcode

Robert, my favourite news reader, NetNewsWire started using Google Reader for synchronization and it's a failure. I now get most of my news via FriendFeed and Twitter. - Khürt Williams

Re Point 8. Check out "RSS Flash G" iPhone GoogleReader App. It lets you share, from iPhone, like a good thing, supports FaceBook, Twitter, Delicious, Instapaper and of course all googlereader sharing facilities are there too. These are two entirely different methods of discovery they both have their uses. But sharing from GoogleReader on the iPhone is EASY so I hope that takes care of point number 8. - JSLeFanu

ffcode: actually on Twitter I miss very little. Why? Retweets and repetition. And, we always have TechMeme as the big net! - Robert Scoble

I just got Lists so i haven't had a chance to really get to grips with it, but I think the problem Robert is that you're trying to apply your usage cases to everyone else. I use Reader in a different way to the way I use Twitter. Just like I use FriendFeed differently to Twitter or Reader. - Eoghann Irving

I guess if you are recycling tweets don't need GReader, if you are munging petabytes via Yahoo Pipes, than GReader will pull stuff fresh off the press - Robert Higgins

Eoghann: over and over in my career I've been told that I'm not like everyone else, but then everyone else behaves like me only about a year later. So, see ya next year! - Robert Scoble

Robert: ahh, yeah, I guess Yahoo Pipes is one thing that might keep me on Google Reader -- if I used it. I'm going to delete everyone on my Google Reader account and start over. It's so freaking slow that it's totally useless, even for the few things I could see some utility for. - Robert Scoble

Robert, it doesn't *always* happen like that. Sometimes it's two years. :-) - Bruce Lewis

Robert, that's a silly argument. If you make enough predictions (and you make them daily). You will of course sometimes be right. But you are not always right. FriendFeed? - Eoghann Irving

Eoghann: I was right about FriendFeed. It's just that Twitter and Facebook are now going to turn into FriendFeed. Just watch. Twitter's new RT feature looks a LOT like FriendFeed's likes. - Robert Scoble

Eoghann: but I get where you're going. By the way, 50,000+ followed me here. So, something about FriendFeed was interesting enough to sign into it. - Robert Scoble

well, you certainly helped make it interesting. But at first, I didn't really understand it's value proposition vis-a-vis Facebook. And now, with things like ping.fm, is it's value really that much? Not sure - I mainly use it for the tray functionality so I can keep up with you, Mrinal, and Danny. Otherwise, I'd completely get behind your posts. - Arthur Coleman

Arthur: FriendFeed's value is static, while the others are rolling out new features. So, for me, it's better to bet on Facebook or Twitter. But FriendFeed will be better for things like live conversations or real time search for quite some time. - Robert Scoble

I love FriendFeed. But I don't recommend it to everyone else. For a lot of my offline friends Facebook is a better fit. Again I come back to the fact it's not one size fits all. - Eoghann Irving

I prefer accessing Google Reader via feedly. - Nils Sandin

Well I tend to miss many important things on twitter.. not my fault. .. time zones differ and so do the times articles are published and linked on twitter ... On my google reader they always stay .. i can check them when i want .. so twitter better than GR? .. yes for breaking news .. not for general articles .. - Amit

Amit: on Twitter they always stay too. It's just that Twitter has a lot more flow. But now with lists you can cut down the flow. - Robert Scoble

Robert: I agree they stay. but it is not difficult to lose them in all the tweet flow. i know lists allows you to cut down the flow, but not if lists has many twitters added to it. I want to read what you write more than what you share and I do not want to miss those articles. Google Reader will always remain my first preference for that.. - Amit

Google Reader certainly is trying to become more social, but for me too the experience is an awful lot like keeping up with email - needs daily management, pruning, to get information out of it. I freak out thinking I've missed an article, therefore dread trying to keep up with reader. I get that using Twitter makes news reading about the here and now, and frankly if it's important it will be tweeted for days to come. I think the notion of getting news from Twitter is a good one, particularly with lists. - Mark Aitken

And for the record, I'm keeping off Wave until it feels less like email too. Currently it's a very messy and exhausting experience to use. - Mark Aitken

Twitter with Lists has become my defacto RSS reader. - Rubin

Just opened my co twitter account & was invited to "create list", I like the way you have broken it down!! I might just organize mine this way, to also include, clean energy, smartgrid, energy management etc. Thanks for a great post!! - John Tastad

Amit: again, if you use lists you DO NOT HAVE TWEET FLOW!!! How can I make you guys understand this? Make a list with five people on it. Your flow will go to nothing. - Robert Scoble

still waiting on lists... am not in love with GR... folder heirachy and speed drive me nuts... - andy

Got list!! It's gonna make organizing specific followers by categories so much better and following specific tweets easier!! Customized information at your finger tips.. - Angels In Action

Is your issue against google reader or rss feed readers in general? I find my rss reader is an invaluable resource to get great information - Pavan

I think it depends where on the wave of info you want to be. I want to create it, others will ride it. I find the stories with tools in addition to reader, then distribute them via Twitter, Facebook, etc. Hopefully, first then others on those social services will find them interesting and talk about them, distribute them and retweet them. If your content with the crowd being a filter for you, I think your right on. - Andrew Acomb from iPhone

Robert I just the funny thing you do not like anything Google does this days, I am actually starting to wonder if you are Anti them. First you hate Google Wav even though their are not enough people on in yet to make it worthwhile and now Reader. I really wonder sometimes. - Rob Cairns

this is totally off the subject, but i have been noticing more and more heavy hitters on Posterous: is there something i'm missing....i just don't know if i can keep up with yet another social networking site, but am i missing out? - Steve Borgman