A key part of Twitters success is down to people passing information on, after all what's the point in keeping something useful to your self. In Twitter speak we call this a Retweet.
Here is how to send a Retweet:
- Highlight the message from another user you would like to pass on to your followers
- Copy the message (Ctrl+C)
- Goto your Tweet message window (What are you doing?)
- Paste the Retweet into the box (Ctrl+V)
- add RT@PersonsID to the front of the pasted tweet
The @personID is the person who's message you just copied, this allow others to see the original poster and the poster will see the message as well via the @reply you can now add a comment before or after the message before you send the message to your stream.
Your Retweet should look something like the image below:
{jb_bluebox}Retweeting is a great way to pass good information / links around Twitter it helps you build relationships between Twitter users and you will nearly always get a thankyou if you retweet and will get retweets in return from that users when you post something that user really likes.{/jb_bluebox}
