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Why do we retweet?

Posted in Social media, tagged , , , on December 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »

What are the primary motivations for retweeting? There are countless of quasi answers out there but very little substantial research. Unfortunately I do not bring you one. I run a little experiment the other day. I said I was running a “Retweet” experiment and asked my followers to RT! I was not sure what to [...]

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Retweeting is the best FollowFriday.

Posted in Social media, tagged , , on August 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The norms of twitter behavior are pretty much user generated. @ Replies, retweets, hashtags to name a few, were all invented by twitter users as a kind of behavior first, and then were turned to application functionality. Such a kind of social behavior is Follow Friday too: each Friday twitter users tweet to their followers [...]

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It’s retweeting that counts, stupid. Or not?

Posted in Social media, tagged , , , , on May 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Conventional twitter wisdom has it that being retweeted is a measure of value. This sounds very reasonable as being mentioned (=retweeted)  is a form of recognition and entails visibility as it, usually, includes the twitter name of the originator retweeting distributes a piece of information virally and, therefore, retweeting  is used as a measure of one’s [...]

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