Are you one of the many millions of Twitter users still confused by the changes to retweeting, even almost a year after the fact? Most of us are, and it’s all thanks to Twitter’s use of the already well-used term “retweet” to describe the newer functionality.
While the Twitter community has been re-posting content with credit to the source and calling it a “retweet” for years now, the social media site’s development team saw fit to use the popular term for built-in functionality that serves the same base purpose but behaves very differently, leading to mass confusion among millions of Twitterers.
While each method has the ability to serve different functions in different circumstances, sometimes people just want to have a winner. If you’re one of those people and you’d like to narrow down your use of retweeting to a single method, allow us to suggest which one and tell you why.
Traditional Retweets Win!
When push comes to shove and you’d like to stick to one method or the other for the sake of continuity, the traditional retweet is the way to go. Official retweets, besides being stiffer in their usability, are not searchable and must be retweeted “as is,” no exceptions. With the traditional method featuring allowances for editing in order to add content like additional tags, a link or a quick opinion on what you’re retweeting and all of the same options completely eliminated when using the newer, official method, there really can be no question as to which method to favor.
The Twitter RT versus Retweets infographic is placed through MyBlogGuest Infographics Gallery.

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Cherie Reply:
March 4th, 2014 at 9:09 pm
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