Social Shirt

It’s like forwarding, but for Twitters instead of emails.  If you see something really cool from one of the people you follow, you may want to ReTweet it so that the people following YOU (and not the original person) can see it.  Here’s an example:

Twitter RT means ReTweet

In the example above, Twitter user “amateria” is repeating something from “kfoxaz” about a new music service.

If you put the @ sign in front of the other Twitter user’s name, like “RT @kfoxaz”, then Twitter automatically converts the person’s name into a link to their Twitter stream.

Note that this is only useful if you have followers that the original person doesn’t have - meaning, if you’ve only got a couple of followers, you probably shouldn’t bother with ReTweets.

This is slang, not a system function.  Twitter doesn’t do anything special if you put in the RT.

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