You can use http://www.retweetrank.com to see how many times you're retweeted.

Ian

You can use http://www.retweetrank.com to see how many times you're retweeted.

Ian

Tho' I see your point. I have a have someone on my twitter that does this.. it's interesting as it allows me to “see” the conversation he is having as such too… not just “his” half of the conversation.

I visit Slashdot, and have for a long time. I don't follow them on twitter as /. is my homepage anyway, and I have specific content filters set up on their site.

slashdot has a twitter account and some sort of auto tweeting going though.

Often when I want to point friends at an article through twitter I want to point them straight to the main article of interest that slashdot may have linked to in their post.

What's the etiquette here? Can I just tweet and point to the main article slashdot linked to (like a NY time article for example).

Do I have to point to the slashdot page first?
Do I credit slashdot?

My approach so far has been to tweet my comment, a link straight to article, and give a nod to slashdot using 'via @slashdot'.

opinions?

That’s why I created this quick little site to tell you how many of your followers you’ll annoy with each retweet.
http://shkspr.mobi/twitter/retweet.php

I do this also when I’m replying to multiple Twitter users so the “meat” of the Tweet will be right at the beginning. This works especially well now that Twitter has improved their @Replies tab functionality. Makes for cleaner-looking posts.

I’d like to talk about the use of hashtags within a re-tweet. While I can see the point of them to an extent, in some ways they serve only to irritate. Let me explain by way of example ….

I, like many on Twitter, am currently following the exploits of @Twitchhiker as he tries to travel the world using nothing but assistance from his fellow twitterers.

As part of his journey, he updates his blog and asks for more help, and regularly requests re-tweets. Even when he doesn’t ask for re-tweets, people are in the habit of re-tweeting, no doubt to be helpful in spreading the word. I’m not against this per se. However, this can occur multiple times per day.

His last such twitter was as follows ….

“Please RT: New blog post Day 4 / 5 – into Germany http://bit.ly/ahAwZ (apologies – little bit rushed) #twitchhiker”

All well and good, and as expected a number of his followers then re-tweet the message thus …

“RT @twitchhiker: Please RT: New blog post Day 4 / 5 – into Germany http://bit.ly/ahAwZ (apologies – little bit rushed) #twitchhiker”

The trouble with this (imho) is that if you’re following #twitchhiker, you get inundated with dozens if not potentially hundreds of re-tweets of a message you’ve already read. The point of a re-tweet is to bring the post to more people’s attention, so why re-tweet it back to the very people who were reading it in the first place ?

Of course anyone interesting in following the twitchhiker will, upon reading the above, simply go to his page and follow him. Those so inclined will quickly realise it’s been hashtagged, and do a search view instead, but the RT doesn’t need both bits of info.Obviously the @ should be there to credit the original tweet as per your rules, and inclusion of that tag will allow anybody to find twitchhiker, read about his exploits, find his blog and see that he’s also a hashtag.

And so, in conclusion, I suggest that if the requester of the re-tweet is also the subject of a hashtag, then including the hashtag is not only surplus to requirements, but actually borders on spamming. To that end, the hashtag should NOT be included.

I did pause for a moment to determine whether my editorial re-work of the Tweet changed Eric’s intention, or to what extent it changed it. In this case, since Eric promoted Jean Kristeller by name, I thought it was okay to add a bit of juice to that promo, since I was impressed by what I read about her work. I thought her university affiliation was extraneous given the 140 character limit.

If I disagreed with his Tweet, I would have offered a clear “I disagree” or something to that effect up front, to call out that I was taking the original tweet in a different direction.

http://twitter.com/ericrumsey/statuses/1270890455
Health & spirituality : Jean Kristeller, Indiana St Univ http://tinyurl.com/cpmap4

It’s fine with me that ChristineKraft has changed the text, and given me the RT …

http://twitter.com/ChristineKraft/statuses/1271005568
Her work helps doctors explore the body + spirit connex w/ patients: RT @ericrumsey: Jean Kristeller http://tinyurl.com/cpmap4

Sometimes the text accompanying a link has to be pretty drastically shortened to do an RT — is that considered bad etiquette?

I think it’s you who has written elsewhere about cascading RT’s — RT’s of RT’s … If snipping of text is bad etiquette, that puts a crimp on cascading.

If the etiquette of Retweeting hardens too much, I’d guess people will just use a simple @ reply instead — Seems to allow more flexibility.