Comments on: Saying no to a re-tweet request, and whether Twitter as a legitimate news source

By: Tweeter

Tweeter — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:30:38 +0000

Aren’t these many reasons for RTing every way implied? Everyone knows RT’s aren’t “endorsement” per se.

A RT is sufficient to point anyone interested to the direct account. You aren’t under any obligation to RT on request, or barred from RT’ing as a favor to a Tweeter you want a tweet relationship with.

If someone is insisting you retweet them, that has to be distinguished from someone who asks for a favor. That’s bad manners.

By: Alchemipedia

Alchemipedia — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:08:15 +0000

Interesting and thought provoking post.

I re-tweet for many reasons, not just because I may be in agreement with a specific twitter i.e:
agreement – endorsement – ‘interesting’ – incredulity – funny – ‘for information’ – wow – ‘breaking news’ – correction etc.

I suppose the intended reason for the re-tweet could be indicated by prefix or suffix ie
RTbn = re-teet breaking news
RTf = re-tweet funny
RTfi = re-tweet for information
etc …
Just a thought.