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29athrowaway 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Tiny number of 'supersharers' spread the majority ...

Retweet was not originally a feature of Twitter. It was initially a convention where users would write "RT @user Their tweet"

raverbashing 8 months ago [–]

Exactly

RTs were done manually before they were a thing. Hashtags, the same (so you could search for #something more easily as a topic).

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