News Source: http://danzarrella.com
Published: Dec 14, 2008 - 08:31 pm
Story Found By: bbcarter 1156 Days ago
Category: SEM
Dan Zarrella writes:
"I started collecting ReTweets a few weeks ago and have collected just over 84,000. I’m working on a system that will allow for mapping and analysis of ReTweet streams (sneak peak below), but in building that, I’ve already uncovered some interesting data.
"Contrary to what I initially thought, “RT” is used more than 4 times more often than the full word “retweet”."
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What would be interesting to know is the relationship between the number of followers and the success of retweets, something that shows how likely a person is to get retweets when he asks. And if saying "please" increases the odds. :-)
I just want Twitter to settle it and give us a RT option....
Great article - although the use of RT istead of retweeting isn’t a big shock. Those 140 characters are precious!
RT @00joe http://bit.ly