Thanks for the follow up and I hear your point. We feel strongly that the new Retweet API / functionality will have a net benefit effect on the ecosystem as a whole. Overall most of the app partners we have talked to feel that the delta to integrate it has been trivial and the value has eclipsed the work required.

To talk to your higher level question about raw tweets — we are definitely keen on adding more context around tweets as is seen with the Geolocation and Retweet launches. I would also posit that by including this metadata with the tweet we empower the ecosystem to be more creative as the data has more signal to work with. From a pure content transformation standpoint there may be more work, but we are servicing myriad of uses that go beyond just that.

Hope that makes sense and I welcome your feedback.

Best, Ryan”