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Twitter launched their own version of Retweets the community created system to pass along tweets we like to our followers.

Now it hasn't all been easy going and there is a bit of a backlash over one or two aspects of the "Twitter Retweet". (Commenting Retweets anyone!)

Today I discovered another little thing we all need to be aware of, "Twitter Retweets" are tracked separately from traditional retweets that you are used to.

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Where did all my Retweets go!

Normaly if a follower retweets one of your tweets you will see the original message appear in your @replies with a RT in front of it (or similar) however if a follower used the new "Twitter Retweet" you WILL NOT see a message in your @replies.

To see a list of all the retweets one of your tweets has received (Using "Twitter Retweets") you now need to login at Twitter.com and go to the Retweets link on the right hand side of your profile then click My Tweets, Retweeted it will then show you a list of all your Tweets in date order and pictures of each person who retweeted it.

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Their's the rest of my Retweets!

At least in the short term you are going to have to monitor two areas to know if you are getting retweets, your normal @replies stream and this new My Tweets, Retweeted page on Twitter.com.

What makes this even more tricky is we have a lot of Twitter clients on mobile phones and the desktop not using the new "Twitter Retweets" so its a bit of a split ecosystem at the moment.

Add in the fact that users can still Retweet the old fashioned way if they want and this is a right mess, I think Twitter need to make a choice either have all reweets flow as @replies, or list all types of re-tweets in the web view.

{jb_bluebox}What we can't have is this fragmented system as it is now, it's next to impossible to monitor effectively.{/jb_bluebox}

Also anyone of your external stats system like TwitterAnalyzer have to be considered broken until they work out how to read from both types of Retweets and produce stats that are accurate.

Have to say I think Twitter have badly handled this roll out not from a technology point of view but from a user impact stand point, all we can hope is this situation improves over the next few months.