Retweets are coming to Twitter sooner than expected. Formerly it was handled by placing a simple RT and copy and pasting the tweet as your own. Now Twitter has stepped in and developed an entire system for it. You will soon see your friend’s buddy icons below your original post if they chose to retweet.

Seems like a pro and a con. If you use something like TweetDeck then it doesn’t matter but this will clutter up the streamline design of Twitter’s home feed. As a pro it will make things easier to follow and to keep track of.

I am not sure however if retweets will show up in your @reply’s section. Only time will tell. Until then here is the proposed mock up of the new Twitter Retweet layout.