I see the value of what we gain with the new RT function, but I feel that I lose more than what I gain. That said, it saves us from the endless RT chains!

1. People rewriting my tweets when they retweet: I’m tired of seeing people turn a tweet like ‘You are not the only person to feel you’re alone’ to ‘ur not the only person 2 feel ur alone’ just so they can add a commentary like ‘so true!’ Suddenly, you’re quoting me on something I didn’t actually say (and I look like a retard to your followers).

2. 10 people retweeting the same thing, flooding my stream: This is irritating because once I’ve seen it, I don’t want to see it again. Especially not 5-10 times. Alyssa Milano likes toffee nut lattes, I get it, but I don’t care that much. Let me see it once (at most), and let’s move on.

3. Chained retweets: ‘RT @somedude: RT @dudeguy: Man, I could use some nachos (via @dudeface) (@via awesomesauce)’. So, who made the original tweet? And what order were they retweeted in? And why on earth do I care who else has retweeted it? This gets even worse when you run out of space in a tweet, and the original poster (maybe @dudeguy) gets *removed from the retweet* to make room. Suddenly attribution is completely lost, and the original poster doesn’t get credit.

4. Tracking your retweets: Instead of watching your mentions, now you can just see which tweets were retweeted and by whom. This will also help Twitter search to find more relevant tweets, but I’m more interested in who’s retweeting, without having to do a search for what I said (to see people who’ve removed my attribution).

5. Excessive retweeters: Some people are worth following, but retweet a ton of stuff I just don’t care about. Sometimes it’s worthless content, and sometimes it’s content that’s just irrelevant to me. Now I can choose to follow someone, but not hear their useless retweets.

The ONLY thing we lose is attribution (and as Randomgeek points out, you can still do old-style retweets; alternately just post a link to the tweet, which is a better option), but the things we gain are worth the change.