Joe pointed me to this example of how retweeting is spreading the word on a specific action and cause

Joe举了一个例子，这个例子显示了这个系统怎么传播一个特定的行动和事件

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That's not even counting retweeting aplusk's latest drivel or updating your music blog about the band nobody CARES about.

还没有算上retweeting aplusk的最新糊涂话和更新博客里无人知晓的乐队音乐。

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If you're RTing (retweeting) someone with comment, it's OK to shorten up their original tweet in order to keep it under 140.

转发评论别人微博时，为了保证在140字以内，删短别人的原话是可以的。

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Readers were tweeting their own thoughts and comments about their insight, not just retweeting the post title.

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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.

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