However, I do think it would effect you if many started using them. Perhaps they’d be adopted as conventions that Twitter promotes and even uses for future features. Surely that’d effect you.

Thanks Chris.

I’ve been using /via for a few weeks now and find it works for me. It’s one-part style, one-party convention, just to make it easy on myself when I want to cite someone else as a source. Retweeting will no doubt change the dynamics of Twitter, and it’ll be interesting to see in what ways.

Perhaps RT and /via go away — I’m not entirely sure. But like I said in my post, /via differs from RT in an important way: rather than just reposting what someone else said (the proverbial “forward” activity from email), /via is more about citing a source but adding your own commentary.

Anywho, we’ll see if slashtags take off — I’m going to use them, but it certainly won’t effect me one way or the other if no one else does!