(on the social media application Twitter) repost or forward (a message posted by another user)
‘tweet the URL of your posting: people love to retweet job ads’
‘On Twitter you could watch the times your content is retweeted.’
‘First, don't hesitate to ask people to retweet your tweet.’
‘The success or failure of a joke can soon be gauged by the number of times it is retweeted.’
‘Believe it or not, stuff like this gets retweeted.’
‘If anyone retweets or answers, then all their connections, friends and followers could also forward it on.’
‘The ads will be confined to Twitter's standard 140-character limit so they can be passed along, or "retweeted," to other users.’
‘I think that retweeting is true social networking.’
‘The goal is that the link takes people to something that's enlightening or entertaining, and they thank you by retweeting it.’
‘Users retweeted his tweet and added their own new tweets.’
‘You can tweet, reply, retweet, send direct messages, browse users, post compressed links, view Twitter trends, and more.’
‘If you find a blog post or new item about Twitter, tweet it, and it will probably get retweeted.’
‘Armstrong's Twitter followers are now 'retweeting' the message and soon almost everybody involved with the Tour of California will be on the lookout for Armstrong's machine.’
‘Second, spammers may retweet and change legitimate links to illegitimate ones, the process of which is obfuscated by URL shorteners.’
‘Countless people "retweeted" the updates from the mountain, others expressed real concern when things went quiet, and many, many more expressed their heart-felt sorrow when the worst was confirmed.’
‘Moore said she was torn about responding or retweeting that woman's post but felt uncomfortable just letting it go’
‘A few additional features are built on top of this simple premise: users who approve (or disapprove) of another user's tweet can retweet them or favorite them (with annotations) providing a measure of popularity for the tweets.’
‘Include direct links to your products so that people interested can retweet and don't forget the hashtag that tells followers and non-followers what your product niche is.’
‘Retweet or share this with your marathon running friends if you think they would like it.’
‘I re-tweeted his question and got some great responses.’
‘You can never take it back because you never know if someone is going to see it or re-tweet it or download it and then repost it.’
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A reposted or forwarded message on Twitter.
‘traffic spiked quickly and contained a mix of retweets and original posts’
‘Hopefully I've convinced you that frequent retweets is a salient goal.’
‘My Twitter account mostly consists of retweets from other twitterers.’
‘Thus, the best measure of someone's quality as a Twitter user is not the number of followers but the amount of retweets.’
‘Traffic spiked quickly and contained a mix of retweets and original posts, mostly sexual jokes of varying quality.’
‘Brown also dominates in the number of retweets.’
‘When I personally tweeted about some content from them a few months back, I saw great responses on Twitter, more retweets and more followers.’
‘If you're monitoring online conversations you should also capture the relative direction of inbound and outbound links, or look at patterns with retweets of our content.’
‘Though it's still quite rare for people to make a comment on a piece in a tweet; more usually it's a "retweet", echoing the headline.’
‘My tweet received one retweet and no @ responses.’
‘In addition, fast loading pages are, in my opinion, considerably more likely to earn links, retweets and other forms of sharing than their slow-loading peers.’
‘If I was mining Twitter I wouldn't pay any attention at all to tweets, but I would pay a lot of attention to retweets.’
‘You can read through all the retweets and responses by looking at the Twitter search for "InTheStimulus".’
‘They created a leader board with logos for the three parties moving on small wires each time a re-tweet was registered.’
‘A message like this is particularily nasty, as there were plenty of re-tweets of this malicious message sent by genuine users.’
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