Facebook is now testing a retweet like feature with some users, allowing people to pass along links that have been shared on Facebook.
Not everyone has the ability at the moment, it has yet to appear in my account. You can check to see if you have it by going to your Facebook newsfeed and see if you have a button on links called “share.”
Guess what that button does? This is a small feature change by Facebook that will make promotion and data sharing on Facebook quite a bit more viral. It looks like this, images via AllFacebook:
This marks one more movement by Facebook to integrate popular Twitter features into their ecosystem. Twitter touched a nerve with consumers, and Facebook is dedicated to staying on top of the latest trends. Given that Twitter turned down a Facebook offer, Facebook is just going to replicate what it could not buy.
This feature should be rolling out to more users in the coming weeks. Of course, we can as always expect Facebook users to have a cow and a half about the changes. Past that, Facebook is dedicated to keeping ahead of the curve, lest a smaller company hurt their edge.
I don’t want to say bullshit but I’m pretty sure that the share button appeared on my profile far before yesterday. I guess I’ve noticed it the first time about a month ago but since I’m not using facebook so much these days, I’ve never checked if the button has been at his place all over the month. Anyone noticed something similar?
I agree. I have been able to do this since at least before july 09. Where have you been NextWeb? lol
I’ve used the @ symbol in Facebook to retweet. It works just the same as Twitter, although it does depend on the fine-grained privacy settings.
I have had the same button for some time now too!! nice post explaining it though!!!
Peace and Prosperity,
Rich @ NY Homesteader
how can i get this button?
All the comments above mine are missing whats going on.
YES the share button has been there for a long while, whats new to the button is when you use it now it adds the text “VIA” + the name of the person who originally posted it.
Look at the second picture:
“Nick ONeill VIA Veronica Rynolds”
Its giving credit now where before it wouldn’t have that line at all, it would just have your comment.
Also, the @ symbol does not retweet. It is used to mention a person, fan page, group, application, etc. with a link to that page. It also posts your status to that page as well as your wall.
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I’ve had it for awhile too. Wth?
Old, been doing this for a while now.
If you visit Mari Smith, SMM Guru, you will see she has connected her Social Media Marketing and Facebookaccounts for quite some time now.
I have this button a long time, but it's not for twitting – only to post something on my fb profile..