Feature idea - Retweet Stacking

[philpem]

Just a concept for a feature. Definitely one for the discussion board.

"Retweet Stacking".

If someone retweets something you say, or you retweet something and that gets retweeted (and on and on), the notifications window can rapidly fill up with endless retweets of the same thing, making it very hard to see anything for the sake of the one raging inferno.

This also applies to things which are popping up on the main timeline and being retweeted mercilessly by other people. Generally if you've seen something once, "XYZ retweeted it again" isn't something that's really relevant.

So the idea is:

• Every instance (retweet) of a given tweet "stacks" into one entry in the Timeline or Notifications view.
• The tweet has its Retweet count and Fav count to give an indication of popularity. Maybe some kind of colour scale could be applied to this, but that's another idea (this would make less popular tweets visible at a glance without having to compare numbers).
• When a tweet is retweeted by someone, it "jumps" up to the top of the Timeline or Notifications view as appropriate -- but can only appear once in any given view. This is what I mean by "Stacking": All the retweets stack into one, but a retweet bumps it to the top (like bumping a thread on a forum).

This -- in theory -- should reduce the workload of managing busy accounts using Retcon, especially when some world event causes a massive storm of tweets about the same thing to crowd out other, also important news from quieter users which Retcon users don't want to miss.

[JGRennison]

This may be a bit tricky to implement given the current design and codebase.
I can see that something along those lines would be useful though.
I'll take a look, though it may take some time, I've not been very active on this project recently.