Readers were tweeting their own thoughts and comments about their insight, not just retweeting the post title.
First, it is ethically-questionable whether users with public streams should be retweeting private tweets without express consent.
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People who receive malicious messages and pass them on, such as by retweeting, could also fall foul of the law.
This is the Facebook equivalent of retweeting, since all of your friends are notified that you liked the blurb.
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But there is a fundamentally sound reason for this noticeable tendency of retweeting in our financial and trader vertical.
He determined that the biggest overall contributors to his score were retweeting and mentioning other users in his tweets.
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These sites then discovered even simpler ways to share: "retweeting" the updates of others and "Liking" Web pages on Facebook.
You are that much more likely to get a job when an employer checks your Twitter to find thousands of followers retweeting you.
Many corporate leaders say they are too busy running a company to spend time posting 140-character messages to Twitter, or retweeting posts from followers.
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But many of his followers, who include members of the New York blogging community, started retweeting the fake stuff, allowing the falsehoods to spread.
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Morgan prefers to respond to his many online detractors simply by retweeting their insults, especially the ones with glaring errors of spelling or grammar.
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The platform moves beyond just retweeting and replying to followers.
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For each item that's flipped into a magazine, attribution back to the source is preserved, and if the content is from a social network interactions such as commenting, retweeting or liking are reflected back to the originating social network.
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While Keys did not directly address the federal charges Thursday through his voluminous Twitter feed, even after the news broke he appeared to continue retweeting others' commentary to his more than 23, 500 followers, including a story about his indictment.
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