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Retweetability? Anyone?

Who cares about retweetability? I do. What about you? Can retweetability be a measure of one's influence on any microblogging site?  Anyway. What's retweeting in the first place? Retweeting is just a way of repeating another microblogger's post on Twitter. With a simple "RT @username message" syntax or a simple click on the RT "button" you can repeat anyone's post; and that message will appear on your personal timeline. Twitip does give a a formula (?) for retweeting in a way.
So what makes a post retweetable? Here are some 3 observations that I have made:

  1. Post quality. How informative is the post? Does it help in starting or even building an online conversation in that microblogging site? I can only link to the article on the the effect of informative posts here.
  2. Reputation. A good name is better than riches really. If it's not Solomon who said that then you have every right to correct me. Popular persons, bloggers, celebrities have great influence on their followers. And many of their tweets end up being retweeted by their followers.
  3. @Replies. I've noticed that mentions of another person in a post can cause them to retweet such a post. Is it the "mention" psychology at work here??? May be.
P.S: And what's this info about the Retweetability Index. :-|


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