If you make a post and then retweet it half an hour later, the chances are pretty high that many of the people who see the retweet are people who saw the initial tweet. If I post on Monday, retweet on Wednesday, and decide to retweet again on Friday, the Wednesday time stamped retweet disappears. @dominos.

We grow authority profiles for thousands of businesses, from local companies to Fortune 500s. In 2011, British politician and ex-shadow chancellor Ed Balls made a simple narcissistic Twitter gaffe that became so popular and famous that us Brits turned it into a yearly tradition known as "Ed Balls day". Someone who follows everyone they find even moderately amusing isn’t going to be able to actually see or engage with a fraction of the content posted each day. Part of that is simply that people like to respond to each other, but part of it is a sort of social herd behavior.

It’s crowded. It's got an answer for everything. Periwinkle Jones‏ managed to capture this classic moment when one pigeon was caught apparently being given a job interview in the local fast food establishment. In April 2017 a man was forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight after he refused to give up his seat. That, or you end up looking like the Onion’s constant reposts of the “no way to prevent this” article, pushing humor into tragedy because there’s seemingly nothing else that can be done. Leave a reply! In a feat of creative marketing, this poster for the film "Legend", starring Tom Hardy as both Kray twins, was designed to neatly hide the two-star review from The Guardian. Obviously, fake engagement is a bad thing, but retweeting yourself isn’t fake. If your life had a narrator, what would they say? Is it a bad thing?

Questions for us? Elspeth captured this frustration perfectly in a tweet that 35,000 other people happily agreed with. The other potential drawback is that you might not have the audience to support the additional exposure. There are, obviously enough, a number of benefits to retweeting your own content.

by Jenna Guillaume. The Youtuber behind the tweet managed to manipulate the numbers by offering prizes to those who retweeted him. Follow @fun_tweets. Tag Archives: funny tweets that get retweeted Funny Tweets. She helped pay for student loans, debts and tuition fees after asking for proof that the requests were legitimate. I’ve talked about the virtues of posting the same thing several times already. What do you do?

pic.twitter.com/zBGto7bKaK. Not to mention all of the outside retweets, the replies, the like notifications, the moments, and the sponsored content. This poor Minion probably needs a nice relaxing bath after apparently bleeding from the eyes. Tell people why they should follow you. This tweet apparently showed a man getting kicked off an aeroplane for simply speaking in Arabic on the phone to his mother. Here, a tweeter catches the newspaper dumbing down the technology of the internet for its readers.

You could go and delete it, but why not just own it?

One of the articles I linked to up above mentions that it can often be like “a friend reminding you of a joke they told six months ago.” Only a few clever friends have the right sense of timing to pull it off. Dogs can be hilarious too and dogs acting like people, even more so. The first and most obvious of the drawbacks is that people notice it, and sometimes they just don’t like it. Yoooo I ordered a Pizza & Came with no Toppings on it or anything, Its Just Bread???? You do have to consider timing, however. It can go in the other direction as well. CLICKBAITWhen do we want it? Top of the list is the World record-breaking plea from Carter Wilkerson to Wendy's food chain for a year's supply of nuggets that exploded on Twitter this spring and is probably the best example of free advertising ever seen on the social network. Get more real followers on your business or personal Twitter account. I don’t think this is really a valid complaint, of course. If not, why not? There were numerous amusing tweets around the incident and the follow-up. See, any engagement that comes form the retweet actually goes to the original tweet. Clickbait is unfortunately still a thing, but that doesn't mean we can't enjoy the fun that this tweet has to offer. It could be a link to a blog post, product page, landing page, or opt-in offer you want to circulate as much as possible while it’s still relevant. Avocados have a bit of a negative reputation and not without good reason. Here we take you on a journey through the funniest, the most retweeted and most inspiring tweets we've seen over the years. It could be a joke in a tweet.

Ed Sheeran's tweets are as popular as his songs.

I’d like to hear your perspectives. Twitter actually added the feature in the middle of 2016. HELP ME PLEASE. Wear only a towel around your waist and you can get into just about anywhere if you just repeat "so sorry so sorry" and keep moving forward. No one is too good for ketchup. In second place is the previous retweet champion, now knocked off the top spot by #NuggsForCarter.

Sep 11 2020 Retweet @ thehubrispanda You don’t know real horror unless you’ve texted someone and then they call.

One single retweet isn’t enough to trigger that herd behavior, it’s just a single retweet.

My favorite example is from 2015, back when HootSuite decided to post the same piece of content 44 times. A user following 100 people might see several hundred tweets a day. April 8, 2013 by Atul Tiwari. However, it remains the most famous selfie on the web. It could be a joke in a tweet. 53 Funny Relatable Tweets That Are The Totality Of Our Existence As you cruise into adulthood and enter the workforce, you begin to realize that there isn’t going … How Many People Can You Follow Per Hour/Day? If only Bradley's arm was longer. You can also use self-retweets for polite self-owns, if you know what I mean. Probably just a bit of a design flaw spotted by Ash Warner and shared for all to enjoy, rather than the birth of the Anti-Christ. You really need a larger audience to be able to support self-retweets. Cats aren't the only animals that can tickle your funny bone. Nicki Minaj spent just under an hour on Twitter handing out gifts of money to down-on-their-luck fans. An hour later, most of those people logging on won’t see your content; it’s too far down the feed.