In the official Twitter mobile app, select Quote Tweet option after clicking the retweet icon. Add your comment and Tweet it. No, Twitter has a set of guidelines and best practice advice for automated actions on Twitter. Automatic retweeting is strongly discouraged and if you are considered a nuisance by other users, i.
Automatic retweeting defeats the purpose, as retweeting content is all about choosing Tweets you want to share with your own community, not overloading your followers with automatic retweets.
Got any more questions about retweets? Search this site on Google Search Google. Written by Rachel May Quin. Nov 27, AM. Tweeting and retweeting is part and parcel of life on Twitter, but getting to grips with the basics is more difficult than you originally thought. What is a retweet? How do I retweet another Twitter user? Can I turn retweets off? Is there a way I can block retweets?
The latter is often the easiest method if you get a lot of retweets, since responding to each individual tweet is cumbersome. You could also add them to a list for future marketing purposes, or retweet something of their's in return. For retweeters, one unspoken rule is to attach a comment to the retweet so you're adding value rather than piggybacking on someone else's work. It's a good idea to keep track of retweets, both those that have reshared your original tweet and popular ones that are currently trending.
You can see the former under your Notifications tab, while you can get a gauge of what retweets are popular by looking through your network.
Both will help you better position your branding and social media strategy going forward. Seeing which of your tweets make for particularly successful retweets will give you a better idea of what interests and engages your target market so you can replicate it in future. Knowing what retweets are popular should have a similar effect on your marketing strategy. RT username: The sky is blue. In this step, you'll also want to delete the name of the user you're retweeting, add a RT in front of their username and a colon after their username, and delete any weird spacing.
In other words, change this:. In this case, you'll need to manually copy and paste any link URLs from the original tweet into your new one. Now we'll compare retweeting the old-fashioned way, which we'll refer to here as "auto retweeting," versus retweeting with a comment. How does retweeting with a comment work? What are the advantages and disadvantages of one versus the other? Then, we'll go over the original manual retweet and recap why it's still important, how to do it, and how to decide when it's your best choice.
Before we get into the nitty gritty, first thing's first: You've got to find a tweet worth retweeting. For me, it's all about my favorite Orange is the New Black actress Uzo Aduba running this year's Boston Marathon and supporting cancer research.
I loved her before, but I love her even more wanting to travel to Boston for such a noble cause -- plus, it's fun to think she'll be around my home city Anyhow, ahem. Back to business. Once you've found a tweet to retweet, the fun starts. Will you auto retweet or retweet with a comment? The first step's the same for both: Click the retweet icon at the bottom of the tweet -- you know, the one that looks like a recycle icon.
A window will pop up that looks something like this:. Now, it's time to decide whether you want to add a comment to your retweet or not. Let's take a look at what both options look like and how to do them. An auto retweet is when you retweet without adding a comment. So if you were to skip adding a comment and simply click the retweet button on the bottom right, the resulting retweet will look like this:.
The addition of retweeting with a comment has not changed how these automatic retweet work, so if you dig using them, you can expect things to work as they always have. On the other hand, if you take advantage of the "add a comment" field, the resulting tweet will look like this:.
Adding that tidbit at the comment allows my followers to gain a better understanding about why I retweeted in the first place. Note, though, that my followers are no longer able to click directly on the link that's within that original tweet. It's not blue and visibly hyperlinked anymore. Huffington Post 's profile picture is also gone. But, rest assured, if they click anywhere in that box containing the original tweet, they'll be taken back to the original tweet itself.
From there, they can click on any URL, hashtag, or username links that the original tweet contains. Still, without the visual cue that they can click on like blue text that's clearly hyperlinked , they might be less likely to engage with that original tweet.
I expect it's going to take people a while to get familiar with this distintion, and you may notice less engagement in the meantime. I'll also be a little self-critical here: My comment copy was a bit redundant, given how the final retweet appears. I would have done well to just put a period after the word "Boston" and let people see the marathon and the cause mentioned in the original tweet. With practice, we'll all get the hang of this slightly new type of tweet copywriting.
Oh, one more thing. You can retweet with a comment as many times as you'd like, and with as many different variations of comment as you'd like. This is hugely different from auto retweeting, where you can only retweet, un-retweet, and retweet again if you want to re-share the post. If you're retweeting someone in hopes of getting on their radar, you'll need to know how visible the various retweet options are to the person who originally sent the tweet.
Here's the lowdown. Your retweet will show up in both the original tweeter's notifications tab, but not the mentions tab. Your tweet will show up in the original tweeter's notifications tab, but not their mentions tab. It'll look like this:. Why might this be a problem? Because many people who get a lot of attention on Twitter actually rely on their mentions tab, not their notifications tab, to show them who's reached out to them specifically.
This is because the notifications tab includes all username mentions in addition to favorites, retweets of tweets they were mentioned in, and other more extraneous notifications. So if you're retweeting someone in order to attract their attention, you might want your retweet to show up in their mentions tab, you'll want to do a manual retweet instead of either an auto retweet or a retweet with comment.
I'll cover the manual retweet later on in this post. Let's take a look at another side-by-side comparison of the auto retweet versus tweet with comment functions, except this time, with an image in the original tweet.
Check out the screenshot below of my retweet of HubSpot's tweet, which included an image in it.
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