Chris Messina makes an interesting proposal to improve microsyntaxis in Twitter, in particular the way we do retweets, include other people in a conversation and cite other people:

1. Change the RT: or the (via @user) to: /via @user — is more descriptive and you save one character in the second case.
2. Start using /cc @usuario to include somebody else t the conversation, just as we do on emails.
3. Use /by @user when citing someone.

Its funny how the adoption (or not) of this kind of microsyntaxis on Twitter determines how we use these kind of services. Let’s remember that Chris Messina was who proposed the use of #hashtags to group topics.

A wiki has been created to identify, research and find common grounds on using these expressions.