You've probably never heard of Chris Wetherell, but you've definitely interacted with things that he has made. The tech developer helped create Google Reader, the widely popular and now-defunct RSS ...

The developer who built the retweet button for Twitter now regrets it, saying that it ‘handed a 4-year-old a loaded weapon’ — and the company’s product head at the time agrees… Buzzfeed interviewed ...

The man who invented Twitter’s “retweet” button now believes it was a very bad idea. In an interview with BuzzFeed News, developer Chris Wetherell said he recalls thinking, “We might have just handed ...

The man behind Twitter’s “Retweet” button—which is pretty much the foundation of the whole site—now thinks he screwed up big time, telling BuzzFeed News in an interview that he recalled thinking, “We ...

The man who built the retweet function into Twitter made it clear that he regrets it in a new interview with BuzzFeed News. Chris Wetherell frequently referred to the retweet (and its ability to ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More United Kingdom-based Tweetmeme announced a few impressive milestones this ...

To those frequent visitors of TheNextWeb, you may have noticed a slightly different ‘retweet’ button on our posts. The original is designed and developed by retweeting fanatics, Tweetmeme.com. This ...

The developer who created Twitter’s popular “retweet” button a decade ago admitted he regrets it to this day. Developer Chris Wetherell, in an interview with BuzzFeed News, recalled the day he ...

X owner Elon Musk is reportedly teasing the removal of "action buttons" on users' main timelines. Those buttons include the "reply" button, the classic "retweet" button, which was renamed to "repost" ...