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I guess you could probably send a DM with your thank you. Maybe it’s because we’re Canadian and so polite that we feel we have to thank people for RTs. What do you think?
Many of the people I see who post Thanks for RTs @person1 @person2 @person3 etc. are not Canadian, so I don’t think that’s it.
Since I read the two articles mentioned in my post, I’ve made a sincere effort to reciprocate, rather than say thank you to someone who retweets me. However, with some people it’s hard to find anything in their stream worth retweeting and it’s hard to know what to do in those cases.
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Hi Janet,
I think if you want to thank people for RT’s then do one tweet to thank everyone at once for all the RT’s. I’m with Shea Bennett the stream is noisy enough with everyone checking in and telling me they are the mayor of some place.
I agree that if you’re going to say thank you, it’s better to do it all in one tweet than to send out a stream of thank-yous, but I think Angie Schottmuller’s suggestions provide more value, not only to the person receiving the thanks, but to everyone else who is following.
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Hi Janet,
This was a useful post about retweeting. I also read Angie’s article that you linked to. These are interesting concepts to consider. I certainly like the idea of thanking people, but don’t like the idea of adding clutter to the Twitter streams. Currently, I thank people in a variety of ways by thanking individually, group thanking (for RTs of the day), RTing their tweets, or mentioning them. But mostly, the idea is developing a rapport, conversation & relationship. I try to focus that mostly on valuable content. This is all good food for thought. Thank you for helping me to rethink my Twitter ways.
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Linda, you are one of the most engaging people I know on Twitter – but it’s always good to consider different approaches! Angie’s article really changed the way I think about retweeting.
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Yes. It kind of stifled me yesterday. I became hesitant to thank and respond like I normally do. Need to mull this over a bit more, but definitely think there’s validity to reducing the Twitter clutter & making the interactions as meaningful & valuable as possible for all.
So what you do you think of group thanking for RTs, MTs & FFs?
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It had a similar effect on me. It was just so automatic to click Reply and send a thank you message!
I’m not really a big fan of group tweets of any type. Although it’s nice to be recognized, being included in a list just doesn’t have the same impact as a personal message that continues the conversation or provides value in some other way.
It does get challenging sometimes, such as when one of your tweets gets a LOT of attention, but I think it’s worth the effort to respond to each one in a meaningful way, even if you can’t do it immediately.
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Appreciate your perspective, Janet. Good thoughts for the week.
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