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I don't think anyone is seriously suggesting copy+pasting as an alternative to retweeting.

• paulgb 9y ago
  Funny enough, the word "retweet" used to refer doing exactly that. Twitter only added retweet functionality in 2009, before then the convention was to write "RT" followed by the handle and then paste the tweet.
  • danso 9y ago
    As a trivia point, one of the tweets that got Quinn Norton fired from her NYT editorial gig was a manual retweet she did of a John Perry Barlow tweet that contained the n-word: Her explanation: https://twitter.com/quinnnorton/status/963594118747361281 https://twitter.com/quinnnorton/status/963594118747361281 The original tweet: https://twitter.com/JPBarlow/status/3760544030 https://twitter.com/JPBarlow/status/3760544030 There was plenty else that Norton tweeted that was problematic (including another time that she used the n-word in a debate to rhetorically quip that "terrorist" was an equally stupid word), but I was struck at how easy it was to misread those pre-official-RT tweets as actual original tweets from the retweeter. And many of the people dragging Norton over that tweet may not have been around back in 2009.
  • tyrust 9y ago
    This is in the third paragraph of the article.