Twitter adds new “Twitter Card” feature, experiments with a select user base

While the best thing about Twitter is that it allows only 140 characters, that’s also the worst thing about it.

The problem is that you end up with a stream of steady Tweets that hogs up the your Twitter feed.

In order to fix this, Twitter is now experimenting with a new feature called “retweet with comment”. This option is far better than the usual “retweet” or “quoted tweets” functions.

In fact, as it stands, the “retweet with comment” will replace the “quote tweet” option where the latter allows users to truncate the original tweet so as to add their comments. It isn’t very different with “quoted tweets”.

Of course, neither of these options work very well since the 140 character limit, especially quoted tweets, as the 140 character limit remains a restriction.

Now, however, Twitter is changing that by allowing people to add their own comments while the original tweet appears as a Twitter card. Of course, this change won’t be apparent to everyone but only to a select portion of of Twitter users.

That said, this isn’t an internal-only experiment but has been seen by normal Twitter users too. Not only has this new feature been rolled out but the option of being able to quote a tweet has been replaced by this new one.

Without a doubt, this is a step up for Twitter because the previous option always forced you to edit the original tweet to add your own thoughts.