Comments on: Should You Thank People When They RT?

By: Rena

Rena — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:24:18 +0000

I’ve been reading “Twitter Power,” by Joel Comm. Joel points out the importance of being in other people’s timeline. Of course we never do anything for our own benefit (heavy sarcasm,) but thanking people puts our tweets into their timeline, giving us more potential to pick up followers. I guess this is a case where it actually pays to be nice .

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:31:38 +0000

I was just wondering the same thing today. I think I had the same concern you did about clutter. The same person retweeted me on two separate occasions recently. The first one, I did not send a thanks (he retweeted a random observation I had made), while the second one I did, but not on Twitter. He had posted a comment on my blog as well, and I put the thanks there. I think in the future, though, I will be like you and tweet some thanks.

By: Nicholas Z. Cardot

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:01:00 +0000

I always try to publicly thank people for RT my stuff. It means a lot to me and I always think that when others see the public thanks they may want to get in on that action!

By: Phil Harrison

Phil Harrison — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:13:21 +0000

I just ran across this because of something that was said to me. Thank you and your readers for improving my perspective. My experience is the reverse. I started out thanking then began to wonder if it was unnecessary. You have all reminded me of the excellent reasons to continue the practice.

By: Rena

Rena — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:34:08 +0000

I doubt that anyone feels insulted that they don’t get at thank you. I never have. The nice thing about doing it in a more public way by replying is that you let all your followers see that this person found your article interesting. It’s also a way to expose the retweeter to a larger crowd, and potentially adds to the number of followers that they have. I’ve gotten some direct messages too. Those are very nice, but I’d like to try to give back to the retweeter as well.

By: MLDina

MLDina — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:51:22 +0000

I think you can go either way- I don’t know anyone who has gotten insulted because I haven’t thanked them for RTing (must check my records re: related unfollows though). You can always DM them if you don’t want to clutter the twaves.