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We will definitely be putting an explanation on the site. A good explanation can be found here: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_retweet

Basically, when you see someone tweet something you find interesting, something you'd like to share with your friends/followers, you copy and paste their message, and usually put RT @username at the beginning. This helps ideas spread through twitter. We're taking away the need to copy + paste, and putting the retweet request in the URL itself to help with the 140 character limit.



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