Changing How Retweets Work, Twitter Seeks To Sl... -

: The goal was to introduce "friction" into the sharing process, forcing users to pause and consider the content they were amplifying .

: Users could still choose to retweet without adding a comment by leaving the composer blank and hitting the button again . Results and Reversal Changing how retweets work, Twitter seeks to sl...

Twitter reversed this change on December 16, 2020, after finding that it did not achieve the desired effect of "thoughtful amplification" : : The goal was to introduce "friction" into

: Users attempting to retweet content labeled as misleading were shown a prompt directing them to credible information before they could proceed . Changing how retweets work, Twitter seeks to sl...