Comments on: Retweet – the “rules” for passing on great info on Twitter http://www.wordspring.ca/2009/08/retweet-the-rules-for-passing-on-great-info-on-twitter/ Use Social Media to create visibility, credibility and relationships Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:38:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Cindy Stephenson http://www.wordspring.ca/2009/08/retweet-the-rules-for-passing-on-great-info-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-930 Cindy Stephenson Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:14:03 +0000 http://www.wordspring.ca/?p=262#comment-930 A great post and excellent comments back. I'd like to add that if you're putting something out there that you hope the twitter community will find interesting and want to retweet, best to keep it shorter than the 140 character limit. No longer than 120 characters and 110 is better. I will edit comments down if I want to retweet, give the original poster credit and still stay within the 140 character limit, but in general if you want to be retweeted, keep the original post crisp. The actual formula for the maximum length of your posts is "140 characters" minus "the number of characters in your Twitter ID" minus "5 additional spaces for: RT_@..._" Cindy A great post and excellent comments back.

I’d like to add that if you’re putting something out there that you hope the twitter community will find interesting and want to retweet, best to keep it shorter than the 140 character limit. No longer than 120 characters and 110 is better. I will edit comments down if I want to retweet, give the original poster credit and still stay within the 140 character limit, but in general if you want to be retweeted, keep the original post crisp.

The actual formula for the maximum length of your posts is “140 characters” minus “the number of characters in your Twitter ID” minus “5 additional spaces for: RT_@…_”

Cindy

]]> By: Raul http://www.wordspring.ca/2009/08/retweet-the-rules-for-passing-on-great-info-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-926 Raul Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:53:41 +0000 http://www.wordspring.ca/?p=262#comment-926 As I mentioned in <a href="http://hummingbird604.com/2009/08/20/on-the-etiquette-of-re-tweets-a-response/" rel="nofollow">my response to Catherine's post</a> I think that it's important to remember that there are no hard rules on Twitter. Rules and norms are evolutionary. And if I can add to the 'rules' that Catherine suggested I'd add - 'say please and thank you often on Twitter'. People seem to have lost that art, lately. Good post, Catherine. As I mentioned in my response to Catherine’s post I think that it’s important to remember that there are no hard rules on Twitter. Rules and norms are evolutionary. And if I can add to the ‘rules’ that Catherine suggested I’d add – ‘say please and thank you often on Twitter’. People seem to have lost that art, lately.

Good post, Catherine.

]]> By: Catherine Novak http://www.wordspring.ca/2009/08/retweet-the-rules-for-passing-on-great-info-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-905 Catherine Novak Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:58:28 +0000 http://www.wordspring.ca/?p=262#comment-905 Good points, Sue! I especially like point about adding your own personality, and showcasing new tweeps by retweeting them. Keeping the medium information-rich is good Twitter stewardship. (BTW everyone this commenter goes by @susan_low on Twitter, you can follow her for good, personable info!) Good points, Sue! I especially like point about adding your own personality, and showcasing new tweeps by retweeting them. Keeping the medium information-rich is good Twitter stewardship. (BTW everyone this commenter goes by @susan_low on Twitter, you can follow her for good, personable info!)

]]> By: Sue http://www.wordspring.ca/2009/08/retweet-the-rules-for-passing-on-great-info-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-903 Sue Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:42:13 +0000 http://www.wordspring.ca/?p=262#comment-903 I think one point about retweets that should be mentioned is that you can have too much of a good thing. Retweeting is good for the social media neighborhood but if you seldom add your own thoughts, you are losing out on a big opportunity to express your own personality. People are less likely to follow you (or more likely to unfollow you) if you are simply a retweeting engine. Here are my self-imposed ground rules for retweeting: Since many of my followers also follow each other, I try only to retweet stuff that comes from a different community, such as bringing non-local content into #yyj or tweets from an unusual search term that I follow. I also retweet things from newer Tweeps so they'll maybe pick up followers from my own follower list. If what I'm thinking about retweeting has already probably been seen by most of my followers, I'll refrain. I think one point about retweets that should be mentioned is that you can have too much of a good thing. Retweeting is good for the social media neighborhood but if you seldom add your own thoughts, you are losing out on a big opportunity to express your own personality. People are less likely to follow you (or more likely to unfollow you) if you are simply a retweeting engine.

Here are my self-imposed ground rules for retweeting: Since many of my followers also follow each other, I try only to retweet stuff that comes from a different community, such as bringing non-local content into #yyj or tweets from an unusual search term that I follow. I also retweet things from newer Tweeps so they’ll maybe pick up followers from my own follower list. If what I’m thinking about retweeting has already probably been seen by most of my followers, I’ll refrain.

]]> By: Narina Prokosch http://www.wordspring.ca/2009/08/retweet-the-rules-for-passing-on-great-info-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-902 Narina Prokosch Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:33:40 +0000 http://www.wordspring.ca/?p=262#comment-902 Thank you so much for the great post. Answered a lot of my questions I had about RT. I am going to file this away for future reference. Narina Thank you so much for the great post. Answered a lot of my questions I had about RT. I am going to file this away for future reference.

Narina

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