Temporarily changed the specification so that Twitter prioritizes quoted tweets over retweets

As an approach to keep information sharing about the 2020 United States presidential election consistent and prevent misleading information dissemination, we have updated Twitter to temporarily prioritize quoted tweets over retweets. It was.

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'We are announcing new and important updates that will keep communication consistent about the 2020 US presidential election, bring more context and encourage thoughtful consideration,' Twitter tweeted on its official support account.

As we continue to protect the integrity of # Election2020 conversation on Twitter, we're announcing new, significant updates today that will bring more context and encourage thoughtful consideration before Tweeting.

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) October 9, 2020

One of the updates is to temporarily prioritize quoted tweets over retweets. Quoted tweets have traditionally been treated as 'commented retweets,' so-called quoted retweets.

One of these updates is temporarily prompting Quote Tweets instead of Retweets.

We heard your overall feedback and understand that some of you, like artists who share their work on Twitter, value Retweets. You can still Retweet by not adding anything into the QT composer. (2/2)

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) October 20, 2020

In addition, Twitter says, 'I understand that there are users who value retweets, such as artists who listen to feedback from all users and share some work on Twitter. Such users write text when retweet. If you don't add it, you can retweet normally. '