The Biggest Twitter Compliment
Re-tweet: The act of forwarding a message through the micro blogging service Twitter.
The term Re-tweeting is well known by avid Twitter users and novices alike. But what impacts does re-tweeting have to you and your friends? None perhaps to the casual Twitter users and social butterflies. But their Tweets are more conversational and not likely to be reading this article anyway.
The avid Twitter user on the other hand, spends countless hours everyday building their credibility by tweeting information. When you re-tweet, you are not only sharing their message but your source of the message. This gives your other friends the opportunity to follow that person as well. What better compliment can you give a Twitter user?
At times, crediting your friends is not an easy task. Many tweets are re-tweeted several times. Accumulating many user accounts (@name). If thre is at least 14 characters free to allow further re-tweeting I will leave it alone. But with the 140 limit, some accounts may need to be deleted from the tweet. I always leave the persons account I received the tweet from (my friend) and the originators if possible.
Giving credit were credit is due is not always an easy task. And no one wants to make Twitter more time consuming than it already is. But if you keep your friends in mind when you are tweeting. They may return the favor.
Great post. Very valid points on the importance of retweeting.