What’s retweeting and how do you do it in OutTwit?
You may have read a recent posting from Rod that there is a function with Twitter called “retweeting”. Retweeting allows you to acknowledge someone else’s post within Twitter, and help spread the word to other followers utilizing Twitter. In my opinion, it’s the same courtesy and respect you should show while blogging to acknowledge that the information you are blogging about didn’t originate with you and you shouldn’t be taking credit for it. If you like it, copy it, but acknowledge the source. In Twitter speak, it can be shown as RT or Retweet.
There are many ways to retweet. Some just retweet and send. Others retweet, and add their own comments to let folks know why they are retweeting.
OutTwit makes it easy to retweet. In the dropdown list in the OutTwit toolbar, you’ll see Retweet…
It’s simple. Just highlight the post you want to push through twitterverse, and hit Retweet:
Up pops the OutTwit dialog box that populates the post with Retweeting, followed by the post. In the above example, you can see that after hitting Retweet, I have 43 additional characters in which to add my own comments. Again, this is a great way to acknowledge that you found someone else’s post interesting. Of course, just like anything, I could very easily remove any reference to @rodtrent above, or retweeting, and just send the link again with my comments. That may be ok in some instances depending on the context, but if you truly want to acknowledge the post, retweeting is the best way. This gives the original poster the credit, and also allows them to see you are retweeting (because the @rodtrent is there and will show in his timeline) and found it interesting. This keeps them posting as well.
Happy retweeting.