The developer who built the retweet button for Twitter now regrets it, saying that it ‘handed a 4-year-old a loaded weapon’ — and the company’s product head at the time agrees… Buzzfeed interviewed ...

You've probably never heard of Chris Wetherell, but you've definitely interacted with things that he has made. The tech developer helped create Google Reader, the widely popular and now-defunct RSS ...

The man who invented Twitter’s “retweet” button now believes it was a very bad idea. In an interview with BuzzFeed News, developer Chris Wetherell said he recalls thinking, “We might have just handed ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More United Kingdom-based Tweetmeme announced a few impressive milestones this ...

The man behind Twitter’s “Retweet” button—which is pretty much the foundation of the whole site—now thinks he screwed up big time, telling BuzzFeed News in an interview that he recalled thinking, “We ...

To those frequent visitors of TheNextWeb, you may have noticed a slightly different ‘retweet’ button on our posts. The original is designed and developed by retweeting fanatics, Tweetmeme.com. This ...

The man who built the retweet function into Twitter made it clear that he regrets it in a new interview with BuzzFeed News. Chris Wetherell frequently referred to the retweet (and its ability to ...

The developer who created Twitter’s popular “retweet” button a decade ago admitted he regrets it to this day. Developer Chris Wetherell, in an interview with BuzzFeed News, recalled the day he ...

HBO Max waited until the year was almost up, but now an agreement has been reached with Roku that will bring HBO back to the streaming platform starting today (it’s also available on Sony’s PS5, ...

On Monday, Twitter was briefly ablaze after CEO Jack Dorsey reportedly suggested to The Telegraph that the company might eliminate its heart-shaped “Like” button. The company quickly clarified, ...

X owner Elon Musk is reportedly teasing the removal of "action buttons" on users' main timelines. Those buttons include the "reply" button, the classic "retweet" button, which was renamed to "repost" ...

TikTok is testing its own version of Twitter’s retweet with the addition of a new “Repost” button that allows users to amplify videos on the platform by sharing them with their own followers. The new ...