Haha, for the first time, I just retweeted one of my comments because I happened to like it, but had never done it before. Still felt a bit strange though!
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Replying to @gangliah
Liking one of your own comments is totally fine, but if half your timeline consists of retweets of your own tweets, you’re Twittering wrong.
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I’m curious, what is it about a person’s retweeting their own tweets that strikes you as objectionable, however frequently or infrequently they do this?
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Replying to @briandavidearp @gangliah
In all honesty, it’s more of a minor annoyance. I occasionally visit timelines of people who retweet themselves daily for no apparent reason. I should have been more specific because I do understand why people would retweet certain tweets to revisit a topic.
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I agree the reason might not be readily apparent in those cases ... but it seems plausible to me the person might have some sort of reason or another, and I feel like it would hard to evaluate if the self-retweeting is bad without (at least) knowing the thinking of the person
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Replying to @briandavidearp @mjaeckel
Difference between retweeting a tweet minutes later and retweeting after some dialogue and providing new commentary. What is possible reason for the former (and likely the reason for the annoyance).
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I can think of several reasons off the top of my head, but it might be more useful to ask a person who regularly retweets after a few minutes what their thinking is. But supposed there were no compelling (to others) reason. What would be the harm?
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I meant what’s the harm as a colloquial way of asking, what would be the badness of this (i.e., as a cause for annoyance)?
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Replying to @briandavidearp @mjaeckel
I am a twitter novice but it seems like that is there for others to retweet what someone else tweeted or to provide further commentary on a prior comment. So, perhaps it is not unreasonable to find the practice a bit.... self-serving and annoying?
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If the button were only there 4 others to use it could be disabled 4 self-retweeting, but Twitter didn’t design things that way. As for self-serving - I don’t follow. Presumably people share and (re)tweet things they expect others to find of interest (or they’d keep 2 themselves)
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