Updated: At the bottom – I added how to turn off retweets from someone you follow.

While some are seeing a slightly skewed version of their friend timeline, I seem to be part of the lucky few to get the new version of the Re-Tweet interface a bit early.

Since I’m one of the few who have access to this a little early (and on an un-messed-up mirror of the site), I decided to give you guys a little screenshot tour of what’s there.

The fist thing you notice on the page is someone else’s re-tweet that’s now been covered up with this big ol’ notice box saying essentially “THIS IS A RETWEET.” I haven’t been able to determine whether this is being picked up automatically from manual retweets (it doesn’t seem to be, but it’s hard to tell).

There’s also a handy guide to hitting the Re-tweet button that appears up top.  

Here’s a re-tweetable item I used to test things out on.  Notice that it shows the original tweet’s name as being from “@pageoneresults,” someone who’s not on my followed list.  It got there because @andybeard, someone who is on my followed list, re-tweeted it, and he gets a tiny by-line at the bottom.

When I hit the re-tweet button, my by-line is added next to @andybeard’s.

When you look at the tweets from the perspective of a feed not enhanced by the re-tweet API, my retweet simply appears like a normal retweet (see above).

That’s it – the guide to retweeting in the new enhanced interface.

For more thoughts on whether this is a good or bad thing, see Andrew Mueller’s recent post: “Was the Twitter Retweet Feature Designed to Bring Value to Google and Bing Search?”

For more help on retweeting, see my guide to retweet guides.

UPDATE:

SiliconANGLEr Andrew Mueller pointed out that I should probably mention that there’s also now the ability to turn off retweets from anyone you follow.

You’ll need to go to that follower’s page, and look for the green retweet icon. Hovering over it tells you what it does, and clicking on it removes their retweets from your timeline.