Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Twitter Retweets: Why do some people use "via" instead of "RT?" #HowTwitterWorks

Many folks on Twitter have explained this very well, so I have quoted their guidance here read more...

5 comments:

  1. and on Twitterific for iPhone, the retreat function automatically inserts "(via @...)" instead of RT

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  2. Powertwitter (for Firefox) adds RT instead of via @ - so I guess it's all up to the user.

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  3. Using "via" uses up 1 more precious character than "RT", so that's also a consideration.

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  4. That's not true... RT is for if you're being lazy and you just want to tweet someone elses post. Via @ it for if you want to say something about then repost it (Example: "Cocopops149: Hey check out my YouTube channel http://bit.ly/ayFG7r," I would post ,"Stranger123: I lol'd so hard when I saw this YT channel http://bit.ly/ayFG7r via @ Cocopops149,")

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