Good Old Retweet Button Is Back On Twitter! Netizens Welcome The Decision With Funniest Memes

Twitter is ending its experiment that encouraged users to quote tweet rather than retweet. Users have responded in hilarious ways after the decision to roll back the easy retweet button.

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Retweets are back to normal and Twitter users couldn't be happier. The microblogging site, which had previously initiated the quote tweets which aimed to let people add their own words to the tweets they wish to retweet, was launched in October with an idea towards "encouraging everyone to consider why they are amplifying a Tweet, and brings more thoughts, reactions & perspectives to the conversation." But the platform said that was not to be found.

In a series of tweets, the microblogging platform said that they did not achieve the desired result from this process as very few users added their own thoughts and words to the quoted tweets. The change was first brought on in October ahead of the 2020 US presidential election.

"We don’t believe that this happened, in practice. The use of Quote Tweets increased, but 45% of them included single-word affirmations and 70% had less than 25 characters," the platform said.

After learning from this product experience, we’re sharing an update: today Retweet functionality will be returning to the way it was before.

Here's what we saw while we prompted Quote Tweets (1/4): https://t.co/MzoDKy3d69 — Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) December 16, 2020

The company is now changing retweets back to the way they were in a move that has been warmly welcomed by users. News of the reversal has led to a number of memes and jokes flooding the microblogging platform. Take a look!

“We did it Joe, ITS BACK... we’re gonna be able to retweet post like normal again!” pic.twitter.com/Onni8vdYRT

— Josh Mitchell (@Oh_My_Josh69) December 17, 2020

Back to using Twitter without multiple fingers just to retweet. We won pic.twitter.com/rtaZ35S4E5

— SnoFall ????❄️ (@LunarSnow1) December 17, 2020

Super pumped that #RETWEEET is back to its old self. That extra click was really putting me out here in 2020.

No, really, it was awful. — Stephanie Regagnon (@StephRegagnon) December 17, 2020

welcome back retweet button, you were missed :’))

— rose (@rosee_diaz) December 17, 2020

Everyone on Twitter after finding out the retweet button is back pic.twitter.com/pazlkXfVSj

— Uncle Drew © (@UncleDrewGB) December 17, 2020

Netizens also requested the platform to bring the edit feature.

After learning from this product experience, we’re sharing an update: today Retweet functionality will be returning to the way it was before.

Here's what we saw while we prompted Quote Tweets (1/4): https://t.co/MzoDKy3d69 — Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) December 16, 2020

We’re switching back. You can now choose to Retweet or Quote Tweet the way you did before. https://t.co/4ZAE6Ax8Vn

— Twitter (@Twitter) December 16, 2020

As Twitter users applaud the decision tell us what do you think about this!