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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of retweet.

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Examples

  • If you think that was hilarious, you will really love this comment that Jeff Poor, who writes for something called the Media Research Center's Business & Media Institute, retweeted from a conservative blogger: I swear, if Meghan McCain gets any dumber she'll be drooling on her boobs.

    Mona Gable: In Defense of Meghan McCain Mona Gable 2010

  • If you think that was hilarious, you will really love this comment that Jeff Poor, who writes for something called the Media Research Center's Business & Media Institute, retweeted from a conservative blogger: I swear, if Meghan McCain gets any dumber she'll be drooling on her boobs.

    Mona Gable: In Defense of Meghan McCain Mona Gable 2010

  • If you think that was hilarious, you will really love this comment that Jeff Poor, who writes for something called the Media Research Center's Business & Media Institute, retweeted from a conservative blogger: I swear, if Meghan McCain gets any dumber she'll be drooling on her boobs.

    Mona Gable: In Defense of Meghan McCain Mona Gable 2010

  • I found a good way to get followers was to get "retweeted" -- meaning that someone would pick up my tweet and send it to their followers preceded by the code "RT @juliaangwin."

    How to Twitter 2009

  • Twitter is a great viral marketing channel, and for many users the aim is to have their story 'retweeted' - i.e. passed on by other users - as many times as possible.

    MSDN Blogs 2009

  • I found a good way to get followers was to get "retweeted" -- meaning that someone would pick up my tweet and send it to their followers preceded by the code "RT @juliaangwin."

    doggdot.us 2009

  • Need 2 use with other online strategies jmilles: @nikiblack Hmm. OTOH, that blog post sure got Bodine's name retweeted a lot.

    Legal Tweets 2009

  • Need 2 use with other online strategies jmilles: @nikiblack Hmm. OTOH, that blog post sure got Bodine's name retweeted a lot.

    Legal Tweets 2009

  • So, when I "retweeted" for the non-Twitterer that is a sweeter and more appropriately avian way to say "regurgitate" another Tweeter's infamous list of Sarah Palin's congressional "targets", replete with names of her to-be-defeated-at-all-costs opponents highlighted in the cross-hairs of a sniper's scope, I also added a brief satirical preface, a variation of a classic N.Y.

    Steven Weber: Listen to the Mocking Bird Steven Weber 2011

  • So, when I "retweeted" for the non-Twitterer that is a sweeter and more appropriately avian way to say "regurgitate" another Tweeter's infamous list of Sarah Palin's congressional "targets", replete with names of her to-be-defeated-at-all-costs opponents highlighted in the cross-hairs of a sniper's scope, I also added a brief satirical preface, a variation of a classic N.Y.

    Steven Weber: Listen to the Mocking Bird Steven Weber 2011

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