retweet

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A retweet is a silo-native repost of a tweet on Twitter.

History

Before Twitter implemented a native way to retweet, it was common to manually retweet by copying the full text of the tweet, including the @username, and prefixing with the text "RT"

See Also

• modified tweet
• repost
• favorite
• Twitter
• https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-the-retweet-ruined-the-internet