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What does RT mean when people put it in a twitter message? - Megan - 09-30-2012 01:31 AM
- Mukhtar - 09-30-2012 01:39 AM
RT is an abbreviation for ReTweet, which is like Repeat. It’s like forwarding, but for Twitters instead of emails. If you see something really cool from one of the people you follow, you may want to ReTweet it so that the people following YOU (and not the original person) can see it. In the example above, amateria is repeating something from kfoxaz about a new music service.
This is only useful if you have followers that the original person doesn’t have - meaning, if you’ve only got a couple of followers, you probably shouldn’t bother with ReTweets.
This is slang, not a system function. Twitter doesn’t do anything special if you put in the RT.