Awesome Techs

Now facebook gives its users a  “via” feature that lets repost another user’s shared items, with a “via” link attached for attribution. This feateure is likely to available for everyone. To try it, just go to a friend’s posted item in your news feed, click “share,” and you’ll see a “via [your friend’s name]” with an option to remove it. After sharing the shared item will appear on your profile, with a via link that points to your friend’s profile. Your friends will also see the item in their News Feeds, creating the viral loop just like the twitter retweet.

Currently, the feature only works for posted links. See the below posted Pic for knowing how this works.

Twitter started to give this feature to its users, earlier this month. At that time it was given as beta feature. But today it came out of the beta phase and now its available for all users.

Twitter is presenting this new feature with some explanatory pop ups on your homepage to help explain the differences and ease you into the new UI element.

Twitter used their own platform to announce via tweet that the rollout has finished.

Twitter launched this @ 5th of Nov ‘10.

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The folks at Twitter are beta testing a new retweet feature which will enable you to retweet a post with one click. There will also be a new retweet icon to quickly identify retweets.