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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Replying to @briandavidearp @gangliah
That’s a fair point. I don’t want to make anyone self-conscious or defensive, but it would be interesting to understand the reasoning behind retweeting a picture of lunch within hours of first tweeting about said lunch.
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I can only speculate. But why would someone share picture of lunch 2 begin w? I guess bc they r keen 2 have others see what they had (maybe it was an especially nice meal & they are wanting to share their enjoyment w wider community). If so, an RT hours later furthers same goal
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Replying to @briandavidearp @gangliah
I suppose that could be true. I may just have to ignore it. Live and let live.
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I guess my feeling is, underneath all this, there is a pervasive sense of loneliness in the world & people sometimes boost a signal, however trivial, to say “I’m here, I exist!” and just hope they will be noticed or receive some response. If so, problem may b deeper than RT norms
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Replying to @briandavidearp @gangliah
I totally agree. When you’re feeling alone, it does help to see a like or retweet to make you feel a bit more connected to others.
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