Twitter fights traditional retweets

Twitter is not the only company to fight their users, but they must be one of the few who are willing to go to ridiculous lengths to do something that users don't want them to do. From Ray Beckerman:

It now appears that Twitter has silently begun a war against traditional retweets, with the first step being to filter them out of search.

I find this pathetic, and outrageous.

Twitter going to war with its own users.

And doing it in a sneaky, silent, back-door way.

As Ray recommends, instead of retweeting normally and using the "RT" notation, alter it to use "TR" instead. That will work around the issue for now. At least until those tone-deaf folks at Twitter understand the value of a traditional retweet enough to not sneakily filter them out.