What is RT?
April 27th, 2009 by LeoraThis post is a teaser. Please don’t tell if you already use Twitter. If you have tried Twitter out and found it confusing, then you are welcome to guess. So…
What is the meaning of RT?
Primetimeparent was interested in the talks we are giving at Three Libraries on Three Thursdays in Central New Jersey. Since she does not live in Central New Jersey, I thought I would give a taste of some of the talk in blog posts.
The first slide I put up was this:
Any guesses? What does the “R stand for? The “T”? Why would you want to include RT in a tweet?
FYI, I call this the hakarat hatov method of Twitter. Hakarat hatov means “recognition of the good”, and that is my first hint as to what “RT” means.
Coming soon: the handout of Twitter links and blog urls that I created to distribute at our social media talks. And I’ll include a link that gives even more reasons to understand and use RT.
Great post on Retweeting or RT’ing as us “tweeps”.I use it for anything i deem worthy of more exposure than the “tweet” might otherwise get.
on a different note Thanks for the Best Wishes for a speedy recovery from my operation. So far it has been with out problems and am back home recuperating. Grateful for the pain pill prescription and about to call it a night and hit the sack.
Robert, yes, that’s it, RT means ReTweet or taking someone’s Tweet and sending it out to one’s own followers. It’s like instead of just replying to what you say, I shout it out to my whole hometown.
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I checked online since I felt frustrated not knowing what to meant but would never have guessed otherwise. Interested in reading why and when you use it.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Your twitter classes (aka posts) are so helpful!
Jendeis, nice to hear from you! So glad the twitter posts are helpful.
FYI, one can see all my twitter posts here:
http://www.leoraw.com/blog/tag/twitter/
lol…more new vocabulary for me….
I really need to figure out what all this twitter stuff is about…. there should be a special course for the technologically underdeveloped…
RivkA, a friend asked me, so what are you going to do when Twitter is passe? Learn whatever the next thing is, I responded. So it goes with technology.
If you read some of my past Twitter posts, many are directed toward beginners.
thanks. I might try that!
(now I’m just trying to catch up on all the blogs I haven’t read since before Pesach!!)