On Twitter, When Should You Thank For Retweets?

Long answer? Almost never.

With a few exceptions, I don’t believe there’s any need to thank for retweets at all. It might seem polite, or good etiquette, but all it really does is add a lot of unwanted noise to the stream.

Why do people retweet? To share content. The retweeter is passing on information to their network that they think will be valuable. From that point forward it becomes their responsibility. If there are any thanks to be made, it’s from their network to them, but even that’s completely unnecessary in most cases.

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