Hi everyone,

Quick question.

I was having a discussion with someone who keeps insisting that he/she has to put his Twitter handle (prefaced with the “@” symbol) IN his tweets because were the tweet to get retweeted, say, 100 times, anything past the 2nd RT would not contain information about who made the original post.

I said that’s not true because that’s not how Twitter actually works (to my understanding, at least).

Example: we have user 1, user 2, and user 3

User 1 makes a tweet.User 2 retweets user 1 (the RT shows that user 1 made the original post)User 3 sees the RT made by User 2, but if he also decides to RT it, he’s actually back to RT’ing User 1, not User 2. That is, it’s constantly User 1 who is getting retweeted.

Is my understanding of Twitter retweets accurate?
Thanks in advance!

@lukaspleva  @charlene-kingston Also RTs are left up to the retweeter. I often have to modify in order to retweet. I am diligent about maintaining the source as best as I can. You do pose an interesting question. I know with Hootsuite I can view the conversation In my older version of Tweetdeck and with Bufferapp I have no such options. Luckily my work handle is only 4 characters long so it’s easier to keep than my business handle (11 characters).