Hi, I’m Laura Roeder. You can find my site at lauraroeder.com, just like it says right here. Today I want to tell you how to create a retweet on Twitter because there are two different ways that you might not know about. A retweet is when you copy someone’s tweet and send it out to your followers giving credit to the original tweeter. So, basically it’s just a way to share a tweet that you’ve read with everyone who follows you.

So, the first way to retweet is to use the built in retweet feature on twitter.com. So, I’m signed in on my account, lkr @ twitter.com, right now and all you do to retweet is click this little retweet button right here. So you can see when you’re just looking through the tweets it won’t show up, but when you hover on the right side this little retweet link will come in. So all you have to do is click this button, it’s going to ask you if you want to retweet to your followers and then you simply click yes. So, once that happens your followers are going to see a message that looks like this. See how there is this little icon right here with these arrows and you see the same icon repeated right here? It says retweets from people you follow appear in your timeline.

So, I actually don’t follow this person, Paidz. This is a retweet from someone else that I follow so it has a little retweet button in front of it so that I can see why this person who doesn’t normally show up in my stream is showing up. So, if you’re seeing people who you don’t follow show up on twitter.com, that’s why. It’s because somebody else has retweeted one of their messages and so you’re seeing it on your homepage. So, again the first way to retweet is just to click this little retweet link by whatever tweet you want to retweet and then click yes.

The second way, kind of the old school way, the way people used to do it on Twitter, is just to copy and paste what someone wrote. So, let’s find a simple one here. So if I want to retweet this tweet from Phil Macnevin, all I do is literally copy what he wrote, paste it into my twitter box here and then I’m going to write rt@philmacnevin and then his tweet comes up. So what this means is ‘rt’ stands for retweet, I need to make sure to put the @ sign in front of his name so that it will show up as a clickable tweeter name just like this one right here and this one right here, and then I paste in his message. So the way – the traditional or old school, it’s kind of funny to say that about Twitter right, the original way to do a retweet is to just simply copy and paste the entire tweet just like this. You want to paste it into your little tweet box and then you want to put an ‘rt’ on the front to show that it’s a retweet and you want to make sure to put the @ sign so that their name comes up as a clickable Twitter link just like these.

You need to make sure that the spacing is correct too. There needs to be a space between ‘rt’ and the name and there cannot be a space between the @ sign and the name. So, to retweet this I just paste it in here and click update. So again that’s one way and the other way is to click this little retweet button. This was Laura Roeder showing you how to retweet.