Facebook has once again gone the Twitter-like way. Facebook has now introduced a feature that is similar to Twitter’s retweet function. The new feature has now gone live for all Facebook users. It only seems to be working for sharing links across a user’s news feed. When you click on share on a link posted by any of your friend on your news feed you are presented with a screen that includes the name of your source. Once you do post the link it appears like this;
It’s not the first time Facebook has attempted to go the Twitter way. Earlier it was the modifications it made to the news feed and some other new features and now this. I’m not sure if the new retweet-like feature would be worth the effort but still a feature is a feature. Clearly Facebook doesn’t wanna stay behind in the growing real-time social media explosion on the web.
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