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Retweeting

A retweet is to re-post or reTweet of someone else’s Twitter update.

It’s an easy way to spread information and/or to acknowledge a good piece of tweeting (or linking).

There are several formats deemed acceptable that credits the original Twitter user:

You can start off with ‘Retweet’ or ‘RT’ for short and then include the original Twitter user’s username prefixed by the @sign.  This enables the Twitter user to see your tweet (because it will appear in their replies section of their profile) and allows other people following your timeline to visit their profile directly by clicking on the name.

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Next, you can put the title of the Tweet if there is room and / or put the URL in the Tweet by cutting and pasting it OR by clicking on the Twitter update time (underneath the post) to grab a URL directing users to the Tweet.

Much of this is now automated, but not via the twitter website.

Certain standards have been establised along the way:

  • You can add your own comment, if there’s room
  • If you can, leave in all the RT names that are in there. If you have to remove some, at least leave the original twitterer (the source)
  • You can edit the original tweet so it fits with any comments or RT stuff, but not so it alters the meaning, blurs the line between what is your comment and what is the orginal twitterer’s. Most important, of course, is the original link, if there was one.