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retweets are one way to quantify relevance. "real people" are not going to retweet something unless they find it meaningful.

• riffer 17y ago
  I like the idea, but what's going to stop a bot from re-tweeting?
  • siong1987 17y ago
    If a lot of people have retweeted you, you are ranked higher on the list, which means that your retweet is ranked higher than retweet from a bot.
    • Devilboy 17y ago
      Yes but nothing stops a botter from running thousands of bots re-tweeting the main spambot's tweets.
• axod 17y ago
  Disagree. As I said a week or so ago. Retweeting is often the same as an email asking you to forward it to 100 friends to get good luck. I don't think that makes for very good measurement of what is important and what isn't.