the.com/retweet
the lazy man's endorsement that somehow built and toppled empires of opinion
means To repost someone else's message on a social platform (originally Twitter) so it appears to your own followers, optionally with your comment attached.
from A child of the internet age, born on Twitter. The platform launched in 2006 with the "tweet" — a short post named for the chirp of a bird, riffing on the company's bird logo and the idea of brief, birdsong-like bursts of chatter. "Retweet" simply bolts the Latin-derived prefix re- ("again") onto that: to tweet again. Users coined the practice and the shorthand "RT" informally before Twitter built it into an official button, a rare case where the crowd invented the verb and the company chased after it.
- origin
- users invented it before Twitter built the button
- first button
- official retweet arrived in 2009
- liability shield
- profiles often disclaim retweets are not endorsements
- viral reach
- a single retweet can chain to millions
- renamed
- became repost when X rebranded Twitter
elon musk's twitter poll — november 2022, musk's question about remaining as twitter ceo received 57.5% 'no' votes, then he announced he'd abide by results
obama's 2008 hope poster — street artist shepard fairey's iconic image, retweeted millions of times during the 2008 campaign
kylie cosmetics launch tweet — august 2014, kylie jenner's first product launch announcement became one of the most retweeted celebrity tweets