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Individual tweets can be forwarded by other users to their own feed, a process known as a "retweet", a term for reposting. In 2015, Twitter launched "quote tweet" (originally called "retweet with comment"), [7] a feature that allows users to add a comment to their retweet, nesting one tweet in the other. [8]
In November 2009, Twitter began rolling out the ability to 'retweet' a tweet. Prior to this, people would write "RT @username" before quoting the original tweet. Some people limited their 140 character limit down further, so that other people could always fit their entire tweet in a proto-retweet. [ 4 ]
The Manual of Style guidelines for block quotations recommend formatting block quotations using the {} template or the HTML <blockquote> element, for which that template provides a wrapper. Quotes work best when used with short sentences, and at the start or end of a section, as a hint of or to help emphasize the section's content.
To quote a multi-paragraph excerpt or other block content instead of an inline entry, use {{talk quote block}} (a.k.a. {} or the shortcut {}) (for "talk quote, option 2"). To format examples, especially when using quotation marks or italics could be confusing and an inline typeface change is needed, use {} or one of its subtemplates (used ...
A historical precedent to reblogging is the viral nature of e-mail, as "Internet petitions" and "chain e-mails" which encouraged e-mail users to "resend" the e-mail to at least a minimum number of contacts on one's contact list were highly popular (and highly controversial) in the 1980s and 1990s.
When a message is replied to in e-mail, Internet forums, or Usenet, the original can often be included, or "quoted", in a variety of different posting styles.. The main options are interleaved posting (also called inline replying, in which the different parts of the reply follow the relevant parts of the original post), bottom-posting (in which the reply follows the quote) or top-posting (in ...
Related HTML elements include the <q> and <cite> tags for shorter, probably in-line, quotations and for citations respectively. An HTML attribute specific to the <blockquote> and <q> tags is cite= where the provenance of the material quoted may be given.
This page explains how to place and format both parts of the citation. Each article should use one citation method or style throughout. If an article already has citations, preserve consistency by using that method or seek consensus on the talk page before changing it (the principle is reviewed at § Variation in citation methods ) .