How to Retweet in Twitter

Retweeting is when you want to pass along a tweet that you received on Twitter. For example, someone tweets (writes) something highly fascinating, something that you think your followers will enjoy, so you retweet it. It is a way of sharing information, while giving credit to the source of the information.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Internet

1. Copy the text and the URL that you want to retweet.

2. Hit reply arrow next to the person's tweet that you are retweeting. This will automatically pop up the person's Twitter handle in the What are you doing box.

3. Paste the tweet in the "What are you doing? box.

4. Before the @ sign, type RT or Retweet. Most people type RT because Retweet counts as 6 more characters against your allotted 140.
   Example: RT @
   Exampe: Retweet @

5. What your retweet will look like: Yourhandle RT @tavissmiley Tonight: Arianna Huffington. Watch preview: http://snurl.com/7prwg
   In this instance, you've retweeted Twitter user TavisSmiley, who announced Arianna as his guest on his TV show.

Tips & Warnings

• Only retweet something that strikes you as really interesting that your fellow Twitterers will enjoy.
• This manual method of retweeting could change if Twitter adds a Retweet button.
• You can also try Tweetdeck or Twhirl applications.
• Make sure there's a space after the RT so the original tweeter gets credit

Resources

• Twitter

[blindsquirrel]

on 9/3/2009 Thanks for explaining this. I kept trying to figure it out. New to Twitter. Not obvious there.