Now look here. We need to have a word about this retweet business. There are two things you should know:
- Retweeting should not be read as endorsement or agreement.
- Retweeting means you want others to see whatever it is you’re retweeting. That is all.
All I intend when I RT something is for my followers to see it too. That might be because it’s brilliant, but it’s just as likely that I’m taking the piss out of the original tweeter and want to expose them to wider ridicule, à la TweetingTooHard. Because that’s how I am.
There are, of course, disingenuous rascals who make a point of (deliberately) interpreting everything one retweets as an endorsement of the original. But they are normally missing the point on purpose. When I share something with my followers, that’s all I’m doing. Sharing it. Unless I append a comment.
At least, that’s my RT policy and I’m sticking to it. Just so you know.