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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 ]
Twitter, officially known as X since 2023, is a social networking service.It is one of the world's largest social media platforms and one of the most-visited websites. [4] [5] Users can share short text messages, images, and videos in short posts commonly known as "tweets" (officially "posts") and like other users' content. [6]
The following table lists the top 30 most-retweeted posts on X/Twitter, the account that posted or tweeted it, the total number of retweets or reposts rounded down to the nearest hundred thousand, and the date it was originally posted. Posts that have an identical number of reposts are listed in date order with the most recent post ranked highest.
Template to display a quote tweet, i.e. a tweet that quotes another tweet. For ordinary tweets use Template:Tweet. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Align left left If set to any value, align the tweet left. Default is right-alignment. Unknown optional Display as block block Makes the template occupy space across the whole column it is in. Unknown ...
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.
Twitter was used by candidates in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign throughout the race. Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama used it for publicity. [46] The Nader–Gonzalez campaign updated its ballot access teams in real time with Twitter and Google Maps. [47] Twitter use increased by 43% on the day of the United States 2008 election. [48]
A Twitter bot is a type of software bot that controls a Twitter account via the Twitter API. [1] The social bot software may autonomously perform actions such as tweeting, retweeting, liking, following, unfollowing, or direct messaging other accounts.