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Twitter Etiquette

What Is A “Fake” Retweet? What Can You Do About It?

December 28, 2010

BufferDigg DiggA question from a person new to Twitter: What is it with retweets? On many accounts they seem of no value at all and look nearly random. Plus, I’ve retweeted others but get no reciprocation. Am I missing something? Fake and semi-fake accounts often use retweets as a means to look real, or to [...]

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Why you don’t always get credit for your tweets

August 6, 2010

Sometimes we schedule a tweet from a popular website and then later hear from someone disappointed that we didn’t credit them when we tweeted the link. They think that because they tweeted about it before we did—in some cases including our username in their tweet, such as “/cc @TweetSmarter”—that we found the tweet from them. We [...]

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Kanye West Tweets: Do you care?

August 1, 2010

A large media publication has contacted us seeking comments about Kanye West joining Twitter. I can’t guarantee you’ll be quoted, but if you’d like to add a comment, I’ll pass it along, and send you the link if your quote is chosen. Here are the questions they would like comments on: 1. Kanye’s Twitter has taken [...]

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