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Re: How To Retweet: Format and Convention

Lori L. — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 01:04:14 -0000

to me, "via" means I learned about it from that person, but they weren't necessarily the original author. So, the Tweet comes to me via them, but not from them.

Re: How To Retweet: Format and Convention

OPFradio — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:07:43 -0000

Our requestbox on the website www.opfradio.com is linked to twitter via tweetcounter which sends the email to twitter.
requestbox converts message to email
email arrives at the studio
studio resends it to twitter
twitter status is updated with the original record request

Very long way around and thought you may know of a shorter way to do it?

Re: How To Retweet: Format and Convention

E Sabatiuk — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:49:45 -0000

I use "via" followed by a handle to indicate that I found a link in a tweet from the user cited but have written my own description/commentary rather than simply copying the original tweet.

Re: How To Retweet: Format and Convention

mrgames2 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:30:51 -0000

I have no comment.

Re: How To Retweet: Format and Convention

Flangel66 — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:40:18 -0000

If I'm gonna comment, I prefer to wrap the actual retweet in quotation marks, then add my comment after.
Like:

RT @briancarter "Check out my blog about retweeting." Do it, it's good.

Re: How To Retweet: Format and Convention

Jon-Mikel Bailey — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:28:56 -0000

Great tips, thanks!

Re: How To Retweet: Format and Convention

LoneWolf — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:33:52 -0000

Thanks for a great article Brian. Now I know why I haven't been able to figure out the proper way to RT -- there isn't one ... yet!

I like the [] and <- conventions -- it reminds me of C++ even though the arrow points the wrong way.

Re: How To Retweet: Format and Convention

benhedrington — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:03:30 -0000

Hi Brian,

Thanks for putting this out and explaining it to the masses. I am trying to visualize trends and extract information from retweets with my http://www.retweetradar.com project. Check it out and send any feedback my way http://twitter.com/benhedri... or http://buildcontext.com.

Thanks,
-Ben Hedrington

Re: How To Retweet: Format and Convention

wineybrett — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:54:56 -0000

I believe that the retweet statistics do not recognise a retweet unless it starts: 'RT @theoriginaltweeter'. So it's a good idea to add comments at the end, possibly punctuated. Your blog was very useful advice and not conformity enforcement. Thanks!

Re: How To Retweet: Format and Convention

Beatriz Alemar — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:47:10 -0000

Brian,

Yay! Good for you! We needed a format. And, I for one also don't like the via. RT is short and sweet! Maybe someone should send this to the developers of the Twitter applications... Hmm.

Re: How To Retweet: Format and Convention

Matt — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:37:33 -0000

I find rather funny that someone wants to tell me how I should be using my Twitter account.

Conformity enforcement. Great.

Re: How To Retweet: Format and Convention

Roo — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:34:32 -0000

I don't like the use of Via at all, don't twitter use this anyway to denote what app you are using to send the tweet?
As for Retweeting, I rarely see R/T mainly RT, why use an extra character when they are limited?
You don;t mention # and you should, many people I have seen use the hash instead of the @ when retweeting, when as far as I know it's a search tag isn;t it?

One final thing - Why don;t you have an option to add your twitter ID here when commenting? Darren Rowse's Twitip blog uses this feature. Now I have to decide whether to put my website or twitter id here!

Re: How To Retweet: Format and Convention

ebrenner — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:24:52 -0000

As it stood, it was too long to RT. So I edited it down to:

RT @readandbreathe: Congratulations to Neil Gaiman for winning the Newbery Award for "The Graveyard Book".

I imparted the information I wanted, though w/o readandbreathe's recommendation. That to me is OK. No meaning change, message delivered.

Re: How To Retweet: Format and Convention

Justin Schmidt — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:16:54 -0000

Twitter is still the Wild Wild West for sure. I still think the best format is: RT @username tweet. Keep it nice and short, ya know?

Re: How To Retweet: Format and Convention

SEONonsense — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:10:20 -0000

Tweetie automatically does the (via @...) version of the RT, thus it's new popularity.

The good news is that Twitter has in fact started catching these, so it will be fine.

Re: How To Retweet: Format and Convention

shaunbwilson — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:07:42 -0000

My best guess is that "via" carries over from http://tumblr.com where many posts are simply "reblogging" someone else. (See: http://shaunbwilson.tumblr.... Want to make enemies on Tumblr? Remove the link giving someone credit for posting it first. :o)

Tumblr automatically adds (via username) anytime you use their "reblog" link.