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Re-Tweeting With Efficiency, RT Over Via

Some prefer retweeting messages in Twitter with a "RT" in the beginning of a tweet, some use "via" in the end. In several cases, I've noticed that if a tweet starts with a "RT", it's way more faster to figure out that the text isn't originally written by the user who posted it.

Let me explain with two examples. Imagine I posted two tweets on Twitter feed:

New iMacs Feature 21.5 and 27-inch Displays and Available Quad-Core Processors http://j.mp/1xlX8P (via @theappleblog)

RT @theappleblog: New iMacs Feature 21.5 and 27-inch Displays and Available Quad-Core Processors http://j.mp/1xlX8P

First one appears like I wrote it, word by word, but when eye reaches the end, you find out that I didn't. In the second example, there's no question who's text it was originally.

Also when a tweet starts with a RT, I can skip most tweets by just reading first three or four words after finding out it is the same tweet re-tweeted by another user.

What do you think?

Comments (1)

Dec 29, 2009
jhartikainen said...
I tend to use via when I got the link from someone - that is, I'm not directly RT'ing what they said. I think it kind of makes sense to use it like that =)

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