Retweeting

Most people don’t fully understand the different types of retweets. The traditional, user-created retweet is sometimes also called “retweet with comment” or “classic retweet.” But even if you don’t add a comment to a retweet, there can be benefits to avoiding just clicking the retweet button on Twitter.com (or setting your app to work that [...]

The “bet with my boss” tweet scam (see bottom of this post) gets people to retweet to help someone make their boss pay for doubting the power of Twitter! However, it’s a scam. People (and some spambots) are just copying a tweet that they’ve seen has worked for other people in order to get more [...]

Here is a great simple Twitter tip inspired by Mack Collier and mentioned by Tamar Weinberg. Tweet your own posts at the same time you tweet about other people’s posts. Doing this will get more engagement (clicks, retweets, comments) on your Tweet. Why? Once the people you have shared something about will see what you have done, you have their [...]

“RT” and “via” are the most common abbreviations used, and you can provide retweet attribution to the curator at the beginning or ending of a tweet with a wide variety of punctuation. A good reference to familiarize yourself with is Why Misunderstanding Retweets Can Get You Suspended, which includes information on how and why to credit multiple usernames. There [...]