(optional ?) Retweet confirmation

[M4rtinK]

To retweet a tweet it is enough to only press the "retweet" icon in the tweet detail view once without any need for confirmation.

I think this could easily lead to retweeting stuff by accident either when wanting to favorite a tweet and hitting the next icon by mistake or during general tweet detail view usage, possible when compounded by OS level lags.

Unlike accidental favorites accidental retweets go automatically to all followers and could potentially pollute ones feed with unrelated stuff uninteresting to followers.

Two possibilities how this confirmation could be done come to my mind:

• using a remorse timer
  • this is a well known Sailfish OS UI concept
  • what about users leaving the tweet detail view when the remorse timer is running ?
  • it might be possibly the user exits the detail screen before he notices the timer is running (maybe it should also show up in the tweet list ?)
• using a simple yes/no context menu
  • user confirms retweet by pressing yes or no context menu option
• retweet confirmation dialog
  • this is what Tweetian has
  • avoids the possibility of user missing the retweet confirmation question
  • it also enables the user to edit the retweet (which I don't think is that important & is a separate issue from this one)
• option to issue retweets without confirmation (current behavior)
  • or possibly a setting based on column ?
  • lets say we have a "local weather" and "computer science" column for a twitter account that usually tweets IT news - the followers would definitely not be interested in random "local weather" news retweeted by mistake but the account operator might like to retweet stuff from the "computer science" column without confirmation

So just a couple of ideas. :)

[SfietKonstantin]

Let me think about it :)