But retweets is not content discovery, retweets are content posted by people you follow (albeit originally posted by somebody else). I'm looking at it from the

But retweets is not content discovery, retweets are content posted by people you follow (albeit originally posted by somebody else). I'm looking at it from the perspective of somebody with a new account with only few followers. How do you get people to see things you post, and ultimatively follow you? In principle you can just reply to their tweets and get their attention, or approach them outside of twitter. In some fraction of cases, twitter suggests things you post to strangers that have common connections. I think that is beneficial and actually doesn't happen nearly enough, leading to people living in filter bubbles.