As it stands, Twitters users can only re-tweet a message, and as DeMers observed, adding a comment is a clumsy cut-and-paste exercise hardly worth the effort for the casual user. Twitter's 140-character limit also restricts retweet comments to a word or two if the original Tweet was a long one. However, according to DeMers, Twitter's new toy would display the original message in a retweet as a Twitter Card below the retweeter's message. This functionality would allow the retweeter to utilize the full 140 characters in the message space above the Twitter Card. DeMers writes that Twitter's hard core followers have balked at the notion of using more words in retweets, as if the potential for banter-and-repartee in a Twitter thread would defeat Twitter's minimalist mission. Conversely, the new function could be a vast improvement. "Twitter is at its best when it serves as a forum for conversation," Demers wrote.