2. I agree.

3. What? That’s not a reason. What’s wrong with that? They’re just telling you who retweeted it.

4. I agree with that one too.

5. A “change in definition” isn’t a reason to hate anything. Would you be against women voting because it changes the definition of “voting”? some people were.

So to me you only have two minor reasons to hate it.

To demonstrate the stupidity of it … I just found pictures of Paris Hilton in my stream on the internet interface.

I did not come to Twitter to hear the wisdom of Paris Hilton.

The whole thing is ridiculous. The surest way to disappear into a black hole on Twitter, and lose all contact with your Twitter friends, is to use Twitter’s fake retweet button….

1. You can’t comment
2. You can’t edit
3. Your friends won’t know you’ve honored them with a retweet
4. You won’t know when your friends have honored you with a retweet
5. When you see the retweet you won’t know who’s sending it
6. Your friends using Twitter applications instead of the internet interface won’t see anything at all..

It goes on and on.

Surest way to take the social out of social media.

If I were running one of Twitter’s microblogging competitors, like identi.ca or friendfeed, I’m thinking “Twitter just lost its competitive edge… let me move quickly to institutionalize the classic retweet on my site”.

Here’s my article on the subject, advising people that they should totally ignore the Twitter fake retweet button: http://is.gd/4YRfB