Some people who complain want to make things better. Others want attention, or just like to complain. How do you tell them apart? The ones who want to make things better engage earnestly with those they disagree with, to try to convert them to their point of view.
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I'm not saying retweet-with-comment per se is bad. There are good things you can do with it. It's just a bad way to engage with someone you disagree with.
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Resisting the urge to retweet this with comment
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Totally agree. Quote tweeting’s turned Twitter into a giant dunk contest. Probably great for entertainment and engagement, but terrible for public discourse.
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Retweet with comment also spares you from having to deal with the multitude of followers that agree with what the idiot says.
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I think the second point is only partially true. If you quote tweet and then use hashtags relevant to the conversation, you're trying to earnestly engage with the greater public when they navigate via the hashtag.
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Isn't retweeting-with-a-comment also a way to: 1. Get feedback from the retweeter's community and start a conversation. 2. Provide another angle for the message that the original poster didn't think about.
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The opposite of this can be true as well - Retweet with comment as a form of positive affirmation and 'engagement' to spread the message
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I don't think RT-with-comment is automatically bad. I often see it used for: * Explicitly endorsing opinions, * Expanding claims (e.g., "This happens in my company too"), * Publicly answering interesting questions, and * Providing context (especially if RTing part of a thread).
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No, it's certainly not automatically bad. It's only bad as a way to disagree with something.
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Aside: I propose we drop "retweet-with-comment' altogether and stick to 'quote-tweet' (which you're already using in the same tweet!). RTs, QTs. It's cleaner
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