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Facebook Needs Its Own Version of the Twitter Retweet


Here's the problem that's most difficult to address: a culture of publicly sharing updates. Currently, there is no retweeting culture on Facebook. People share links, but they don't tend to redistribute actual status updates to the rest of their friends. There are two reasons for this: names aren't clickable like they are on Twitter, and there's no universal syntax