And what's interesting about this question, it was heavily retweeted and voted up by our userbase.
The message was retweeted hundreds of times - but crucially Lisburn woman Christina McStravick saw it.
But some of the tweets were retweeted, presumably by students at Lawrence North, and remain online.
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But the key to getting talked about and texted and retweeted is having original content.
The Library of Congress archives my public stream, including your private tweet that I had retweeted.
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" On Friday, another Twitter user retweeted that message, and added the words, "But my backpack is.
Smith has 1.6 million followers on Twitter, and his complaint was retweeted by over 100 of them.
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The day before she was killed, Steenkamp retweeted a message on Twitter in support of Black Friday.
Humorist Neal Pollack had what was, by my rough tally, the most retweeted quip of the night.
Ms Cheng then "retweeted" the mocking message, he said, forwarding it and adding the words "charge, angry youth".
The article has since been retweeted hundreds of times and, you could even say, has gone viral.
Using basic social media analytical tools, they can see which of these messages are actually clicked on and retweeted.
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Viacom retweeted several posts blaming DirecTV for the blackout, many from stars of shows that air on the affected channels.
The most recent tweet is one he retweeted on Wednesday from Mufti Ismail Menk, who identifies himself as a Muslim scholar.
Whenever I share to Twitter, Facebook or any other place, Buffer tells me how many people clicked, liked, retweeted, favorite and more.
At the start of December he retweeted a series of motivational messages.
Jones retweeted a supportive note from Gerald Celente, who has 36, 000 followers.
He talked about how Justin Bieber recently retweeted a Forbes story on Sean Parker which led to a huge spike in traffic.
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Essentially Klout considers your net worth to be the sum of how often you tweet, get retweeted and how many people follow you.
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She sent a message to Gloucester fly-half Freddie Burns, which he later retweeted, saying "if it wasn't for those fans he would have died".
Pleas for help have been posted, tweeted, reposted and retweeted so much that it is impossible to separate the cons from the legitimate requests.
Many of those were shared, reposted and retweeted many times over.
Within an hour, it had been retweeted more than 9, 000 times.
As innovations go, this is no Google, but I was (pleasantly) astonished at how many other people picked-up that tweet and retweeted it again and again.
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The picture of Armstrong and the seven yellow jerseys has been retweeted almost 4, 000 times, drawing a mixture of support and outrage from the online community.
There is no way to edit or append a correction to a tweet, and once it has been retweeted, those 140 characters take on a life of their own.
When I posted a link on Twitter, it was posted again - or retweeted - by McCoy and it has gone on to be viewed more than 15, 000 times.
Ms Combo said she was urged to organise an event after calling for justice for the victim in a tweet which was retweeted by hundreds of people, including Bollywood stars.
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