DISQUS

Tim Rombach · 2 months ago

The ReTweet graphic is a very useful idea for Social Media presentations.

000 · 2 months ago

You might wanna write an update on the RT Etiquette article, a lot of the stuff in there is pretty old. Odd how quickly that goes in less than a year, but the person tacking on "RT blabla" onto a reply-tweet to indicate it's a reply kind of shows Twitter etiquette might not have been entirely mature yet :-)

Perhaps also distill and summarize some of the stuff discussed in the comments there, but try to keep it short and to-the-point. Can't quite place my finger on it, the information in your articles is usually excellent and powerful, but somehow they don't "read" as smooth or punchy as I think they could.

Probably something to do with your introduction paragraphs, perhaps read some "writing tips" articles on it. For instance, this one, the intro paragraph is directed at people that like retweets, want to save them and should RT this article. However, if I'm gonna RT this article (which I did btw) the people it's meant for are people not entirely familiar with RTs yet, but the "How to RT" part only starts halfway the article by which time these people are gone (cause the article starts out by telling them they should save something they dont know much about, yet). I'd switch that around, the RT-savvy audience will scan past a beginner-level "How to RT" and ledge on to the Call-to-Action later on because they support the cause. While the "beginners" are gonna need a sweet introduction to even convince them they should be learning something new.

Sorry for the critique, it's meant to be constructive. Cause I love your blog, especially your latest articles about Contagiousness and the one about Rumours. Good stuff. I linked them for you in the O:MF section of the PD forum, they liked it a lot :)

JDEbberly · 2 months ago

Dan, your articles are valuable and timeless. Love to RT many of your articles. Keep it up. This is a spectacular blog! I've learned a great deal from reading it.

Laura Clarke · 2 months ago

As usual Dan, valuable info. Many thanks - keep it coming!! :-)

singlepayercentral · 1 month ago

The custom of cordoning off an area of the message for comment on the quote might help to address this??? This is where the quote (or RT) appears followed by a || which walls off the comment/note ON the quote.

Getting rid of RT'ing altogether is an over-reaction and just not very smart problem solving.

Paolo Sanchez · 1 month ago

How about the ReTweet shrinkage scenario? Since a tweet is 140 characters, a "RT @username" (and character count for the username varies) would take a chunk out of the 140 characters. So if the original tweet is 137 characters - verbatim RT is out of the question. This presents a Tweet regurgitation scenario (with the option of own opinion addition) - an RT of the second kind. Wondering what the best protocol for this scenario.

Ef Rodriguez · 1 month ago

Pretty pictures!