reposts

5 ♺  reposts  are sometimes part of the information about a post displayed on the post itself, sometimes in a post footer, like a total number repost responses, icons of recent reposters, or even a datetime ordered list of reposts.

Note: if you're looking for information about a repost itself, see:
 * repost

Why
By displaying a summary of reposts of your post, you show that there are (and can be more) some light interaction with your post. It also shows immediate feedback to those that have responded to your posts with their own indie repost responses.

How to display
When a post receives a webmention from a repost, it can choose to display it similar to a favoriting/liking of that post, as well as optionally displaying a number of reposts.

IndieWeb Examples
The following posts display information about "reposts of" somewhere in their footer / comments, either a count of reposts of the post, and/or listings of the actual reposts of in time sequence order with other activity on the post.

Aaron Parecki
since ????-??-?? displays reposts after the content of his posts:
 * http://aaronparecki.com/notes/2013/12/03/1/homebrew-website-club#reposts

Barnaby Walters
since ????-??-?? displays reposts of posts inline with other responses after the content of his posts:
 * example via Bridgy: http://waterpigs.co.uk/notes/4V9AxW/

Pelle Wessman
uses webmention.herokuapp.com to display a realtime facepile of reposts under each post on his blog, since 2014-12-30. webmention.herokuapp.com can also show likes mixed with the rest of the responses when facepiles has been opted out of.
 * Facepiles example from, who also uses webmention.herokuapp.com: http://www.kevinmarks.com/

Sebastiaan Andeweg
uses Kirby with his own take on the webmentions plugin to display reposts and other interactions under his posts. Displays in the same facepile as likes, but with a repost-icon instead of a heart. Example:
 * https://seblog.nl/2017/01/07/1/sneeuw

Marty McGuire
uses webmention.io to display a facepile of reposts under each post on his blog since 2017-03-17. Example:
 * https://martymcgui.re/2017/02/24/101739/

WordPress plugin
pfefferle is working on displaying "reposts of" for the wordpress plugin

Displays reposts using the Post Kinds plugin. Example: https://david.shanske.com/2016/08/07/sullivan-county-international-airport/

Most Reposts
The most reposted things on various sites, including indieweb sites:


 * IndieWeb: On 2019-01-11 posted a screenshot of attempting to read a Medium article on his iPhone but getting obscured by pop-ups: https://aaronparecki.com/2019/01/11/28/ "How did we let the Web get to this point. All I wanted to do was read this blog post. "
 * 192 reposts as of 2019-01-31 per the reposts display on the post


 * Twitter: Via https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/05/09/congrats-the-most-retweeted-tweet-ever-is-now-a-teens-plea-to-a-brand-for-free-nuggets/
 * https://twitter.com/carterjwm/status/849813577770778624 has over 3.6 million reposts as of 2017-11-29.
 * Twitter previously, before 2017:
 * On 2014-03-02, Ellen DeGeneres, with the help of Bradley Cooper, took a "selfie" with her mobile device and posted it on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheEllenShow/status/440322224407314432 "If only Bradley's arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhxWutnCEAAtEQ6.jpg" That tweet became both the most measurably reposted thing (beat Barack Obama's most shared tweet around the 2012 elections), with over 3.4 million reposts as of 2014-04-02 (one month), and the most responded to thing with over 6 million responses (reposts, likes, replies) as of 2017-08-16. See additional references, including animated GIF of the taking of the selfie

See also:
 * likes

Facebook
Facebook calls repost posts, "shares". Facebook posts have a repost icon underneath their content, with a count after it.

They also cluster notifications about reposts of a post. Clicking on such a clustered notification takes you to a page listing all reposts of your post in chronological order, each with their own comments, likes. E.g.
 * https://www.facebook.com/shares/view?id=10101755232551693

Facebook's "share posts" are dynamic / hot-inlined! That is, if you share someone's post, and then afterwards they edit it, your shared copy (if it even is a copy) is edited too! Example: (not sure if this is an any-logged-in-user or only logged-in-friends link) https://www.facebook.com/shares/view?id=10101755232551693

Twitter
Twitter calls repost posts, "retweets". Tweet permalinks have a retweet icon underneath their content, and also show facepile of recent retweeters. If you're logged in you can click and see a list of the reposters.