Get rid of Re-Post / Re-Tweet altogether

Why do people not seem to value their originality more and lack the belief that their followers would want to see what somebody you mention has originally written. Why would one have to word for word repeat what Guy Kawasaki wrote when one could just as well point the followers to his tweet? It's a double-click away on Tweetie! How much more value would there be, if Twitter would not degenerate into a copy and paste waste-bin?

You know about the "in reply to" function twitter has? Oftentimes you could just hit reply on the original contributor and write in your own tweet: Amazing what you wrote there about this and that. And people would find it, and there would be something MORE than just a copy.

And it would still be contributed to the original author!

There is no need for RT in Twitter. Other clients don't have it. And the "via"-implementation sadly is not much else than a non-standard-rendition of RT.

Getting rid of both might be the soundest implementation of a better philosophy.