Twitter Testing Mobile App Design With No Retweet Button

Twitter without a retweet button? It’s actually being tested.

Twitter without a retweet button? It’s actually being tested.

Twitter confirmed to Ingrid Lunden and Jon Russell of TechCrunch that it is testing a tweak to its flagship mobile application in which the retweet button and reply arrow are replaced with a circular icon that brings up sharing options and a speech bubble.

The social network told Lunden and Russell it was studying how the design tweak changed user behavior, adding:

We’re testing new icons on tweets to evaluate how this impacts the way that people use Twitter.

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