Twitter experiment kills retweet and like icons on embedded tweets

Virtual water-cooler Twitter is experimenting with a new feature that illustrates how many people are discussing individual, popular tweets through the service. The feature — which, again, is just an experiment — appears on embeds of popular, viral tweets found across the Internet. It replaces the like and retweet icons with a count of how many people are discussing the tweet. Twitter removed the Retweet / Like buttons for tweets embedded in articles?! Old Twitter Embed vs. New Twitter Embed pic.twitter.com/BAm6we9P0E — Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) November 23, 2017 Speaking to TechCrunch, Twitter spox Dan Jackson said the feature is a…

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