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Twitter 101: Tips and Tricks

by Terrence O'Brien on March 26, 2009 at 01:59 PM


What is ReTweeting?

ReTweets are re-posted updates that give credit to the originator of the message. In other words, you're simply cutting and pasting someone else's tweet and posting it on your own feed, linking to the person who first wrote it. ReTweeting builds goodwill within the Twitter community, as long as you don't overdo it. There is no need to reTweet every update that makes you giggle, but, if something strikes you as particularly interesting or funny, you can reTweet it by copy-and-pasting the update and preceding it with "RT" (for ReTweet) and the person's username.

Here's an example: We saw slashfilm posted about a new movie trailer yesterday, and wanted to share it, so we wrote:
RT: @slashfilm: The movie trailer for Spike Jonze's Where The Wild Things Are is now online http://eweri.com/E44"

That person will get a copy of the ReTweet, and most likely thank you for it! (ReTweeting is also a good way to get more followers, by the way.)

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